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Views from space
The bright light across the middle is our own galaxy, the Milky Way, shown pretty much as it looks today. The red speckled edges show "cosmic microwave background radiation", which is the oldest light in the Universe and the remains of the fireball "Big Bang" from which the Universe was born 13.7 billion years ago.
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