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The discovery of ‘fossil radiation’, a residual of Big Bang, which can still be measured today, has allowed us to visualize how matter from primordial cosmos was slightly wrinkled by tiny fluctuations that later made the formation of galaxies possible.
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Bignami, G.F. (2012). You Might Not Know That…. In: We are the Martians. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2466-3_11
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