This color of the universe - beige (light taupe)

In 2002, after analyzing the light from 200 thousand. Galaxies assembled by Australian experts in the framework of the project "Mapping of galaxies with a red shift", American scientists from Johns Hopkins University have found that the color of the universe - a pale green.

If we take as a basis a palette of colors "Dyulaks", the color that will be somewhere between "Mexican mint", "bunch of jade" and "silk Shangri-La».

However, a few weeks after the report of the American Astronomical Society scientists had to admit that in their calculations crept unfortunate mistake and that in fact the color of the universe is closer to a sort of dull shades of gray and brown.

In XVII century the greatest and most inquisitive minds thought of a question: why the night sky is dark? After all, if the universe is infinite in its space uniformly dispersed an infinite number of stars, everywhere you look, is bound to be some kind of star, which means that the night sky should be as bright as day.

In science, the mystery known as "Olbers photometric paradox" - in honor of the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, who described (but not the first in history), this mysterious phenomenon in 1826.

However, to date no one has found a truly convincing answer to this question. Perhaps the number of stars in the universe yet of course, but maybe the light from the most distant stars just before us is not reached.

Source: www.bustersmyth.ru

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