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Space Science

Cosmic Microwave Background: Google Earth Style 36

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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Cosmic Microwave Background: Google Earth Style

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  • by femtobyte ( 710429 ) on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:05PM (#43293743)

    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).

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