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Nine Year Microwave Sky

The detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe created from nine years of WMAP data. The image reveals 13.77 billion year old temperature fluctuations (shown as colour differences) that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies. The signal from our galaxy was subtracted using the multi-frequency data. This image shows a temperature range of ± 200 microKelvin.

Credit: NASA / WMAP Science Team

WMAP # 121238

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9 year WMAP image of background cosmic radiation (2012)
Date 21 December 2012, 22:30:50
Source http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/121238/ilc_9yr_moll4096.png
Author NASA / WMAP Science Team

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