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COBE Satellite Microwave Detector
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COBE detector

This microwave detector was lifted into space in the COBE satellite. The "switch block" switched between the two "horn antennas" that received radiation. By comparing two different parts of the sky it detected tiny differences that theorists predicted in the cosmic background radiation.

Credit: NASA
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