CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe

[Denny]

[Denny]

oh dear!

Must’a been a Moody Blues record on yesterday’s…

[Innocent_Bystander]

Taoists will love this one.

[Caroluna]

@APOD

But these speeds are less than the speed that all of these objects together move relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR). In the above all-sky map from the COBE satellite, radiation in the Earth’s direction of motion appears blueshifted and hence hotter, while radiation on the opposite side of the sky is redshifted and colder.

[Boody]

I love these things.

[mutepointe]

If someone could add some animation to that and make is less than 31k and less than 100 x 100, that is so my next avatar. Too cool.