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Universe’s baby picture wins $3 million

Image joins 13 other winners in lucrative Breakthrough Prizes.
  1. Zeeya Merali

    1. Zeeya Merali is a freelance science writer based in London, UK, and author of A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universe (Basic Books, 2017).

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A detailed, all sky picture of the infant universe created from nine years of WMAP data.

A detailed, all sky picture of the infant Universe created from nine years of WMAP data. Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team

Astrophysicists who captured an image of the Big Bang’s afterglow — and confirmed the standard model of cosmology — won a US$3-million Breakthrough Prize on 3 December.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-07759-8

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