We know this because there are regular screenshots of the Seattle skyline complete with the Space Needle in the background.
Google can help you find a restaurant, show you what your city looks like from space and give you a quick background check on your next date.
This new photogenic moment, released Thursday, comes courtesy of the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope, which detects cosmic microwave background radiation -- the light left over from the Big Bang.
The background is that chips that go into space need to be radiation hardened.
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When the black color splashed against the background, it created definition and a sense of space.
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It is set against a background of concern that Wales is running out of landfill space, with the National Audit Office (NAO) Wales last year recommending that 500 new waste management facilities were needed by 2010.
It said that against a background of fragile recovery in manufacturing, business needs a breathing space to allow tentative signs of improving conditions to take a firmer hold.
In 1966 Kenneth Greisen, Vadim Kuzmin and Georgiy Zatsepin showed that high-energy charged particles (cosmic rays are mostly atomic nuclei, and thus positively charged) should be slowed by collisions with the photons of the cosmic microwave background (radiation left over from the Big Bang that permeates all space).
Microlensing occurs when a massive object in space, like a star, crosses in front of another star shining in the background.
Space is the second area, the importance of which seems to have faded into the background in recent years.
The new map is a smart byproduct of the European Space Agency (Esa) telescope's main mission which is to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB - a pervasive but faint glow of long-wavelength radiation that comes to us from the very edge of the observable Universe.
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With an MBA and background in computer science, she was one of few women working in the high-tech space.
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