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Very reminiscent of 1245. —[[User:Scs|Scs]] ([[User talk:Scs|talk]]) 12:31, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 
 
 
As far as I can figure out, -452 F is something like 4 K, which seems a bit too warm (above OTL microwave background). It probably should be -456 in the next-to-last row and -458 in the last row (-459 for the last column). --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.81.76|141.101.81.76]] 12:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 
As far as I can figure out, -452 F is something like 4 K, which seems a bit too warm (above OTL microwave background). It probably should be -456 in the next-to-last row and -458 in the last row (-459 for the last column). --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.81.76|141.101.81.76]] 12:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
  
 
There will be ambient starlight in addition to the 2.7K background which should raise the temperature slightly. However, the 2.7K background will also redshift to a lower temperature as time goes on: T propto 1/a where a is the scale factor of the Universe. Would be a good assignment for a cosmology class. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.48|173.245.54.48]] 13:07, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 
There will be ambient starlight in addition to the 2.7K background which should raise the temperature slightly. However, the 2.7K background will also redshift to a lower temperature as time goes on: T propto 1/a where a is the scale factor of the Universe. Would be a good assignment for a cosmology class. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.48|173.245.54.48]] 13:07, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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As far as I can figure out, -452 F is something like 4 K, which seems a bit too warm (above OTL microwave background). It probably should be -456 in the next-to-last row and -458 in the last row (-459 for the last column). --141.101.81.76 12:58, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

There will be ambient starlight in addition to the 2.7K background which should raise the temperature slightly. However, the 2.7K background will also redshift to a lower temperature as time goes on: T propto 1/a where a is the scale factor of the Universe. Would be a good assignment for a cosmology class. 173.245.54.48 13:07, 20 November 2015 (UTC)