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by Ren Laoshi
Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:17 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: What's out there? Speeding through the universe (09 Mar2008)
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Puzzled

The yin-yang shape is immediately apparent, but why does it look that way? There are probably many places that explain this, but I don't know them. I'm guessing this "dipole" image represents a spherical depiction of the CMBR reduced to a 2D circle. If so, then I can easily imagine a blue ...