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18
2014
Clear SignalScience | Space and Atmospheric Physics Researchers with the BICEP2 collaboration recently announced that their telescope in Antarctica has allowed them to collect what they believe is the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation. Sep
20
2013
New Mode of DiscoveryScience | Space and Atmospheric Physics Scientists using the South Pole Telescope became the first team to detect a long-predicted polarization pattern in the afterglow of the Big Bang. The detection of this signal is a milestone along the way toward understanding cosmic inflation, the period of extremely rapid expansion of the universe. Mar
16
2012
Mission CompleteScience | Space and Atmospheric Physics Its five-year mission: To survey the early universe for massive galaxy clusters, a search designed to understand more about one of cosmology's greatest mysteries, dark energy. Mission complete. Now the South Pole Telescope will begin a new quest to learn about the exponential expansion of the universe right after the Big Bang called cosmic inflation. Apr
01
2011
Inflation at South PoleScience | Space and Atmospheric Physics The theory of inflation holds that just a fraction of a second after the universe exploded into existence, it expanded exponentially. The search for the evidence that will finally prove or disprove one of the key concepts of the Big Bang model of cosmology has similarly expanded in the last decade or so. The South Pole Station has become one of the preeminent locations for that quest.
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