But developing COBE took fifteen years, and huge efforts.

但是开发COBE花了十五年的时间，付出了巨大的努力。

Sir, the COBE satellite is going into an uncontrolled spin.

长官 宇宙背景探索者号卫星突然失控翻转。

The first major discovery from COBE arrived just weeks after launch, in early 1990.

1990 年初，COBE 的第一个重大发现在发射几周后就出现了。

This new satellite, COBE – the cosmic microwave background explorer – would shed new light on its properties.

这颗新卫星COBE（宇宙微波背景探测器）将揭示其特性。

Jan soon started an effort to build a European follow-up to COBE, called Planck.

Jan 很快开始努力建立 COBE 的欧洲后续行动， 称为普朗克。

COBE measured variations in the temperature of the microwave background across the sky.

COBE 测量了天空中微波背景温度的变化。

But they also confirmed COBE's results.

但他们也证实了 COBE 的结果。

John and George shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 and COBE's discoveries made an impression on many young scientists.

约翰和乔治在 2006 年分享了诺贝尔物理学奖，COBE 的发现给许多年轻科学家留下了深刻印象。

The data returned by the satellite was indistinguishable from the theoretical predictions, but COBE's most astonishing finding was yet to come.

卫星传回的数据与理论预测并无二致，但 COBE 最惊人的发现还在后头。

Jan Tauber: " Clearly COBE ushered in a new era where people tried to do better than COBE and this was one of the first attempts at that." Missions like Planck could take much sharper and more detailed pictures than COBE's.

Jan Tauber：“很明显，COBE 开创了一个新时代，人们试图比 COBE 做得更好，这是最早的尝试之一。”像普朗克这样的任务可以拍到比 COBE 的更清晰、更详细的照片。