The Universe. It looks boring.

Two astrophysicists at NASA announced this week that the universe is, on average, beige.
 
Dr Karl Glazebrook and Dr Ivan Baldry took the colors of the light emitted by 200,000 galaxies, averaged them out and determined its composite shade.
 
 A contest was held among astronomers to name it; they came up with :

• BIG BANG BUFF
• COSMIC KHAKI
• SKYVORY
• UNIVEIGE
  

 but the winner was

• COSMIC LATTE.

 
see http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091101.html

 

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