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    Is the Cosmic Microwave Background as Beautiful as Any Work of Art?

    by Brian Gallagher Jan 15, 2016 1 minute

    he usual space vista is of distant tumbling galaxies, or towering clouds of dust. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, for instance, is a photograph of a patch of blackness representing just one 24-millionth of the whole

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