Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. These questions, among the most important and baffling to astronomers since the beginning of the modern astronomical era, might well be answered by a new space satellite mission. MAP will record the frequency, size and temperature of bumps 20 times smaller than COBE . Astronomers have computed what bumps would be expected from several models of our universe, and comparing these results to MAP's data may yield a new understanding of the composition and structure of our universe .
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