I ran across this before the Planck probe data had confirmed what WMAP had found. There is a good write up on the alignment anomaly by theoretical cosmologist

I ran across this before the Planck probe data had confirmed what WMAP had found. There is a good write up on the alignment anomaly by theoretical cosmologist Dragan Huterer about it: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~huterer/PRESS/CMB_Huterer.pdf http://www-personal.umich.edu/~huterer/PRESS/CMB_Huterer.pdf Fascinating to see it still causing a ruckus all these years and a whole other probe later.