This all-sky image was produced in 1992 by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. It was able to detect temperature variation, but at much lower resolution than MAP: the red bands are 0.0002 degrees warmer than the black regions. The red horizontal band is microwave emission from the Milky Way galaxy, not Cosmic Background Radiation.

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