2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Other resources and links

John Mather and George Smoot receive the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/index.html

COBE Death Announcement - Even good missions eventually die. http://www.astronomycafe.net/guide/cobeend.html

Why is our universe lumpy – with clusters of galaxies, stars and planets?

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/SeedsStructure.html#cobe.three

Wikipedia on COBE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBE