Manichaean art

The seal of Mani , the oldest known Manichaean art

The eight "Chicago Black Sox"

Cosmic flux versus particle energy at the top of Earth's atmosphere

Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01The pigeons roosting inside the horn antenna were trapped and relocated twice before the engineers accepted the hiss was cosmic.
02Penzias and Wilson won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics — accidentally, while testing satellite communication equipment.
03Princeton cosmologist Robert Dicke had been building a detector specifically to find this radiation; Penzias called him first, and Dicke told his team: 'We've been scooped.'

After Mani was flayed alive in 274 CE, his religion was banned across Persia and Rome — yet Manichaean monks smuggled illuminated manuscripts eastward for centuries until the texts surfaced in Dunhuang and Turfan.