An Unexpected Source Could Help The Universe Shine Brighter Than It Should
When the New Horizons probe reached the outer darkness of the solar system, past Pluto, its instruments picked up something strange. Very, very dimly, the space between the stars shone with optical light. This was not in itself unexpected; this light is called the cosmic optical background, a faint luminescence from all light sources in …
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