Station

Star system
Station distance
1,791 Ls
Landing pad
Medium
Station type
Outpost (Civilian)

Station services
Commodity marketOutfittingRearmRefuelRepairShipyard

Black marketContactsFleet carrier administrationFleet carrier servicesFleet carrier vendorInterstellar factorsMaterial traderRedemption officeSearch and rescueTechnology brokerUniversal CartographicsVendorsWorkshop

BartenderConcourseCrew loungeMissionsPioneer SuppliesTuning


Economy
Refinery
Wealth
Population
Government
Corporate
Allegiance
Federation
Minor faction

Station update
30 Apr 2024, 10:31pm
Location update
10 Apr 2024, 9:58pm
Market update
13 Feb 2024, 10:16pm
Shipyard update
Outfitting update

Galpedia

Robert Woodrow Wilson

For the American President, see Woodrow Wilson.

Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrelated work.

While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, they found a source of noise in the atmosphere that they could not explain. After removing all potential sources of noise, including pigeon droppings on the antenna, the noise was finally identified as CMB, which served as important corroboration of the Big Bang theory.



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