Scientists Take Pictures of the Universe 380,000 Years After the Big Bang, Calling it "God's Face"

Our Universe expanded from a tiny point to a scale measured in light-years, and in the first three minutes, all of the most astonishing transformations took place in the Universe. You won't be able to see these sights even if you are there. Whenever we look up at the sky, we see a scene from billions of years ago, and we take it for granted that this has always been the case, but it is not.

380,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe began to become transparent, and the universe before it was chaotic. The universe at the time was like a dark soup of unstable electrons, and the young universe needed to cool down before the electrons could slow down to form atoms. The hydrogen, helium and lithium atoms in the universe took a long time to finally form.

Scientists have calculated that it took 380,000 years for electrons to slow down enough to form atoms. After the large-scale generation of atoms, the universe gradually became clear, and the first rays of light ran through the chaos in the universe. 14 billion years later in New Jersey, two young scientists stumbled upon this ray of light.

In 1964, Arnold Penchias and Robert Wilson were mapping the Milky Way's radio signals, and they were detecting a strange hum that could be picked up everywhere. At first they suspected that something was wrong with the instrument or that the antenna was contaminated with pigeon waste. But after cleaning out the antenna, the strange hum still lingers.

Penchias gave a speech at Princeton University, and it is said that a person sitting in the back row said: You have either discovered the pigeon poop effect, or you have discovered the secret of the origin of the universe. These strange sounds are the sounds made at the moment when electrons formed atoms and everything was created 14 billion years ago. That was the moment when the chaos dissipated and the universe began to take shape.

To get a better picture of this critical moment, NASA launched the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, which they launched into deep space to measure the temperature of the universe. By measuring the temperature of different regions in space, they created the first image of the early universe, an image known as the "Faces of God."

Scientists have captured beautiful pictures, which are very young pictures of the universe after 380,000 years of birth. However, problems also arise. These pictures are very blurry. It seems that the pictures taken by the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite are not good enough. NASA has launched another more advanced satellite, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. In 2001, David Sperger and his group worked to obtain a clearer picture of the early universe.

It was absolutely thrilling to be at Cape Canaveral to watch the launch live, as David Sberg and his family watched the rocket launch. In less than a day, the signal from the satellite was received, and the scientists were pleased to know that the satellite was operating normally. This is the most detailed picture of the early universe ever taken by humans, recording what the universe looked like 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

Those red and yellow areas are warmer, while the blue and green areas are cooler, and these temperature differences provide clues to the framework for mapping the universe. We can see small differences in temperature, and these small differences reflect differences in density, with some areas containing more material and others less.

This last picture of the structure of the universe shows the distribution of matter. Areas without matter become vacuums, while dense areas become future galaxies, stars, and planets. These fluctuations eventually formed galaxies, and if it weren't for these density fluctuations, we wouldn't be where we are today.