The
Color
of the Universe is "LATTE".
June 24, 2002
Posted: 11:12 AM EDT BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) |
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Good news for coffee lovers:
Space, the
final frontier, is the color of a latte (see
background). so say astronomers Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry at Johns Hopkins University. |
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In January of
2002, the two determined that the universe was a sprightly pale turquoise, then after discovering a glitch in their software in March, they realized that the average color was actually a milky brown. Not knowing what to call it, besides beige, they solicited suggestions, prompting nearly 300 e-mails with ideas including: Big Bang Beige, Cappuccino Cosmico, Galactic Gold, and Infinite Sand. |
What is shape of Universe? |
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The winner?... COSMIC LATTE. | ||
Ivan
Baldry, a postdoctoral fellow, said he and Glazebrook
both love coffee, which factored into the decision. Cosmic Latte is also appropriate because it's close to "latteo," which "means Milky Way in Galileo's native Italian". Glazebrook
and Baldry discovered the milky
coffee hue after gathering light from galaxies as far as
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