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Cosmic Microwave Background: Google Earth Style

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:30AM from the find-the-aliens dept.

iDuck writes "Damien George, of Cambridge University, has created a 3D visualization of the latest data from the Planck mission. Using WebGL, it lets you spin and zoom a 3D model of the Cosmic Microwave Background, and select different wavelength bands."

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Microwave by Tator+Tot · 2013-03-27 04:50 · Score: 3, Funny

It's funny how the Cosmic Microwave Background looks like the inside of our work microwave.

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Re:Projected wrong? by femtobyte · 2013-03-27 05:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

Especially for something that you can't see with your naked eyes, what makes a projection "wrong"? Do you also complain whenever you see a Mercator projection (or other sphere-projected-to-a-rectangle) map? The external spherical projection makes it easy to visualize large-angular-field structures along with small, which are awkward to view from "inside" (without really strong/funky perspective distortion).