Cosmic inflation: BICEP2 Telescope

March 18, 2014

BICEP2 telescope / Anthony Turner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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The BICEP2 telescope's focal plane consists of 512 superconducting microwave detectors, developed and produced at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Photo by Anthony Turner /JPL)

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