Scientists figured out the average color of the universe and it’s basically coffee with too much milk
In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University set out to answer a question nobody asked but everyone secretly needed answered: what color is the universe? Not the black of space you see at night — the average color of all the light from all 200,000+ galaxies they surveyed.
Their first answer: a whiteish green. They announced this to the wo…
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