When most people think of the universe, they likely imagine that it is an infinite pool of blackness, peppered with stars here and there. Or maybe they envision it to be a colorful mix of galaxies, ...

In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University set out to answer a question nobody asked but everyone secretly needed ...

Astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University have produced a unique new insight into the nature of existence: They’ve determined the color of the universe. The irregularities of individual computer ...

of the universe will publish a paper on their broader results in April. When they do, the footnote describing the color of the universe finding will cite beige, not the originally announced turquoise.

There’s been a certain amount of snickering in astronomy circles lately over the “color of the universe” brouhaha. In case you missed it, in January, astronomers from Johns Hopkins University ...

An international team of astronomers has determined the colour of the Universe when it was very young. While the Universe is now kind of beige, it was much bluer in the distant past, at a time when it ...

Excerpted from The Universe in 100 Colors: Weird and Wondrous Colors from Science and Nature by Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge. September 24, 2024, Sasquatch Books. Published with permission. Feast ...

The universe has come in for a color correction, and home decorators may approve. Astronomers who announced in January that they’d determined the color of the universe will publish a paper on their ...