Please overlook my relative ignorance on this subject, but would someone more knowledgeable please explain this in concrete specific terms and not philosophical, or consequential?

What I am wondering is exactly what was the CMB measuring? What was the Plank satellite measuring? (What is CMB)?

As I always understood the ecliptic, it is the plane on which most of the planets revolve around the sun (Pluto's orbit is a bit outside that plane), even though there are small differences in the planar angle for each of the orbiting planets. Then the plane in which the earth rotates is about 18 degrees (I forgot that exact number) off the ecliptic - right? Then there is the plane on which most of the stars in the milky way are orbiting (very slowly) around a galactic center. Are they saying that the galactic plane is different than the solar system plane? And what did the CMB (and Plank) measure that leads them to conclude that "the earth is the center of the universe"? That sounds like poppycock, since we already know the earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits the galactic center.

If anyone here can get right to the specific details of what they were measuring and why, and how they jumped to whatever conclusions they are making that are causing such a fuss - please advise.

Thank you so much, whoever wants to pin this all down in simple, concrete terms.