Another anomaly of these results is that temperature fluctuations are not uniform across the sky map.

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If you pick up all the temperature data points in the sky map and put them in histogram, you should get a nice bell curve.

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On a good night, this camera will be able to map a swathe of sky approximately the size of the Plough's blade (or, for North Americans, the Big Dipper's bucket).

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Scientists used data from Planck to create an artificially colored map of temperature variations across the sky in the early universe, in more detail than ever before.

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In July, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which aims to map out a million galaxies, published a research paper in which they superimposed their own galaxy-clustering data on Wmap's microwave data.

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Our only feedback for ASUS here is that the locations of some of the photos were a bit off (for instance, this author was never on the north bank in the above map), which is weird considering the sky was clear at the time, plus there weren't many tall buildings.

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The storied crystal is claimed to have been able to accurately map the location of the sun -- even in cloudy sky -- within 5 degrees.

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