Designed by NASA and launched in 1989, COBE was NASA's first satellite mission to observe the early universe with instruments to measure the frequency spectrum of the Cosmic Background Radiation, to map its smoothness and variations, and to look for the light from the first generation of stars and galaxies. Last year Dr. George Smoot, along with Dr. John Mather, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". Join us as Dr. Smoot visits Fermilab on WEDNESDAY, June 6, as part of the Fermilab User’s Organization Annual Meeting. We will discuss the primary ideas of cosmology and how Dr. Smoot became involved in the quest to answer these questions which turned into an adventure detective story. The consequences are that we have a coherent story of the creation and evolution of the Universe with abundant evidence to back our case.

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