First Light - Revealing the Early Universe Through Cosmic Microwave Background

First Light - Revealing the Early Universe Through Cosmic Microwave Background

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Why we only see the cosmos in the past

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Why we only see the cosmos in the past

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First Light - Revealing the Early Universe Through Cosmic Microwave Background

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  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Why we only see the cosmos in the past
  3. 3 Why JWST is an infrared telescope
  4. 4 Vesto Slipher's discovery that distant galaxies are redshifted
  5. 5 How Hubble's redshift work led to him discovering Hubble's law
  6. 6 How the Big Bang Theory developed
  7. 7 Project Echo
  8. 8 Telstar
  9. 9 Penzias and Wilson's discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation CMBR
  10. 10 Why does the universe have CMBR?
  11. 11 How the discovery of CMBR proved the Big Bang Theory
  12. 12 Why we can't explain the current expansion rate of the universe the Hubble tension
  13. 13 How new observations in Chile may solve this problem
  14. 14 Conclusion
  15. 15 Q&A Session

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