Cobe is designed to see just the biggest structures, but astronomers would like to see much smaller hot spots as well, the seeds of local objects like clusters and superclusters of galaxies.

• 蜂巢被设计认为是最大的结构，但是天文学家也乐意看到更小的摩擦发热点，这种种子的对象像簇和银河系里的星云团。