Speed of Light
Light, Sound and Waves
Cosmic latte
Stories from Physics
for 11-14
14-16
Researchers have attempted to determine a ‘cosmic colour’ by averaging the frequency of light emitted by 200,000 galaxies within 2 billion light years of the Earth. Though the researchers initially reported the mean colour was somewhere between turquoise and aquamarine, a bug in their software caused a miscalculation and they subsequently reported the new average is beige — a colour sometimes referred to as ‘cosmic latte’. You can experience ‘cosmic latte’ on the NASA website.
