Seeing green: Color of the cosmos

From Washington, DC, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society

PALE GREEN UNIVERSE. Approximate color of the cosmos, as indicated by the 2 degree field survey of some 250,000 galaxies. Johns Hopkins University

We live in a pale-green universe. That’s the conclusion of researchers who analyzed the colors of some 200,000 galaxies as part of the largest galaxy survey completed to date.