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What are the characteristics of the spectrum of the cosmic background radiation?

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The measurements at a number of discrete frequencies of the background radiation that fills space
place their relative amplitudes reasonably close to the curve that characterizes the radiation of a
blackbody with a temperature of 2.725 degrees absolute. As such, the peak amplitude is found
at the frequency of about 162.5 GHz.

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