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cosmic microwave background radiation

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Microwave radiation that penetrates space throughout the universe, postulated to be residual electromagnetic radiation originally emitted by warm matter in the universe approximately 400,000 years after the Big Bang.

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  • noun (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin

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