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The Universe is beige

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Posted 02 November 2009 - 09:41 PM

www.telegraph.co.uk said:

With its jewel-like star clusters, swirling galaxies and orange Suns, pictures of the Universe are usually impossibly beautiful and brightly coloured.

But as Nasa has pointed out the real colour of outer space would not look out of place on an office wall: it is beige.

After studying the colour of light emitted by 200,000 galaxies scientists have combined them to produce the colour, they have dubbed 'cosmic latte'.

Other names suggested for it were 'univeige' and 'skyvory'.

But apparently this colour has changed over the last six billion years as the predominant colour has shifted from blue to more of a red.

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Posted 02 November 2009 - 10:02 PM

and i always thought it was black...hmmmmm :wacko:
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Posted 02 November 2009 - 10:17 PM

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Other names suggested for it were 'univeige' and 'skyvory'.


Nasa should sack their creative department.
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Posted 02 November 2009 - 10:43 PM

View PostRhungobains, on 02 November 2009 - 04:17 PM, said:

Nasa should sack their creative department.


i think i have to agree with this. i have an idea why not call it beige and forgot all the fancy names
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Posted 02 November 2009 - 11:35 PM

I like cosmic latte. Maybe Starbucks will come up with a new flavor from it.
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Posted 02 November 2009 - 11:37 PM

When Professsor Karl Glazebrook and Dr Ivan Baldry first announced the results of their research, dur to a software error, they made a mistake and said that the average colour was turquoise. See the following link: BBC News, 8th March, 2002

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Posted 03 November 2009 - 12:06 AM

Cosmic latte sounds like something from the Hitchhikers guide.
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 12:18 AM

Think of the curvature of a space as being like a donut dipped in coffee ...
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 02:14 PM

View PostWaspie_Dwarf, on 02 November 2009 - 04:37 PM, said:

When Professsor Karl Glazebrook and Dr Ivan Baldry first announced the results of their research, dur to a software error, they made a mistake and said that the average colour was turquoise.


`Turquoise' ? I am not familiar with that colour. Do you mean perhaps `turquasar'? Or maybe `starquoise'?

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Posted 03 November 2009 - 04:19 PM

View Postsepulchrave, on 03 November 2009 - 08:14 AM, said:

`Turquoise' ? I am not familiar with that colour. Do you mean perhaps `turquasar'? Or maybe `starquoise'?

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just in case your serious or others out there don't know turquoise is a semi precous gem in the south west usa.
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 12:02 PM

So if I had a picture of the entire universe open in photoshop (assuming I had 50 trillion terabytes of RAM), and I went to blur and clicked "average" it would all turn beige?
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Posted 14 November 2009 - 04:27 AM

View PostKacen, on 11 November 2009 - 05:02 AM, said:

So if I had a picture of the entire universe open in photoshop (assuming I had 50 trillion terabytes of RAM), and I went to blur and clicked "average" it would all turn beige?

I think so, yes.

If your photoshop recognized that all the space between planets, stars, asteroids, nebulae, etc. is transparent.
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