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This is the story of the cosmic background radiation - the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born - and how it was discovered. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the search for the origins of the Universe, beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and its crucial discovery.

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作者马库斯·尚恩是《新科学家》杂志的宇宙学顾问，善于运用独特、清晰的语言描述深刻的学术概念，出版有多部天文科普作品。