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Background comes to the fore

Nature volume 420, pages 747–748 (2002)Cite this article

The cosmic microwave background radiation is a unique source of information about the early Universe. The detection of its polarization could lead to confirmation of an inflationary phase soon after the Big Bang.

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Figure 1: Polarization at the pole.

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