Saturday 9 January 2010

The universe is beige

Beige or Cosmic Latte as it has now become known, is the color of the universe.

In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry from John Hopkins University, determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum", published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe.

Cosmic Latte came about after a Washington Post article where they published the color with a joky footnote from Glazebrook saying he was looking for a name for the new color. Several people who read the article sent in suggestions and"Cosmic Latte" was selected.

The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7 should anyone want to paint thier living room in it.

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