RIP WMAP

Last year HERE I posted about the WMAP, NASA's absurdly successful mission that, to name just a few things, knocked out:

1. NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation (the oldest light in the universe) and produced the first fine-resolution (0.2 degree) full-sky map of the microwave sky
2. WMAP definitively determined the age of the universe to be 13.73 billion years old to within 1% (0.12 billion years) -as recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records!
3. WMAP nailed down the curvature of space to within 1% of "flat" Euclidean, improving on the precision of previous award-winning measurements by over an order of magnitude

and much, much more. At the end of the post I even gave you some nice titties to look at since I like yall so much.

Anyways, it looks like while they'll continue to collect data for another two years, the mission is complete.

Says principal investigator Charles Bennett of WMAP’s legacy:

“It was almost miraculous,” Bennett said. “All of a sudden, in one fell swoop, we suddenly had all these numbers: the density of atoms, the density of dark energy, the age of the universe, when the first stars formed, the distance light has traveled to get to us…. It was just really stunning to suddenly have all this fall into place.”

Amazing.

Also, now that they have time on their hands, maybe the wizards behind the thing can help me work on my fake tits on a piece of plyboard that dudes can just always have with them idea.