It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org)

Reader sciencehabit writes: Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top? Now, one team of cosmologists has used the oldest radiation there is, the afterglow of the big bang, or the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to show that the universe is 'isotropic,' or the same no matter which way you look: There is no spin axis or any other special direction in space. In fact, they estimate that there is only a one-in-121,000 chance of a preferred direction -- the best evidence yet for an isotropic universe. That finding should provide some comfort for cosmologists, whose standard model of the evolution of the universe rests on an assumption of such uniformity.

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Re:Look harder

[similar_name]

//It was quickly realised that this dipole was the result of our Galaxy moving at 600 km/sec with respect to the CMB radiation//
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Look on the bright side

[Torodung]

Hey, you're not lost. Look on the bright side. You're always at the center of the universe. ;^)