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Jim Peebles has also made significant contributions to the understanding of the cosmic microwave background and what else?

  • Structure formation

  • Pulsars

  • Cosmic radiation

  • Stellar lifecycle

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In addition to his work on the cosmic microwave background, Jim Peebles has also made significant contributions to the understanding of structure formation. Structure formation is the process by which galaxies and other large-scale structures are formed from the primordial fluctuations in the density of matter that existed in the early universe.
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