After all the hue and cry about the color of the universe, astronomers have now revised their findings. It’s not pale green but boring old beige.
In a whimsical calculation that received wide publicity last January, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan K. Baldry of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore estimated the average color of the cosmos: the hue that the human eye would perceive if all the light from nearby galaxies was blended into a single point of light (SN: 1/26/02, p.
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