Did you know? The Color Of The Universe Is Named After Coffee
All the stars are closer, all the stars are closer. ✨
Coffee enthusiasts must be thrilled, cosmic latteis the official name for the average color of the universe. We just can’t leave coffee alone!
Wait, but the galaxies are so dark! Yes… but no. If you pull all the stars in the galaxies together and average out their light spectrum, you’ll see something astonishingly different. (we’re talking roughly 20,000,000,000,000,000 stars) That’s what the astronomers did in 2001.
Imagine putting the entire universe in a ginormous box and observe the lights all at once. 🔭 Get the picture? By the end of this cool Technicolor experiment, the astronomers saw a milky-beige white in their eyes. Coffee wasn’t the only competitor in the naming process. Your favorite soup and nuts were in the game too.
Unfortunately, Cosmic Latte cheated. Cappuccino Cosmico was the no.1 pick among Big Bang Beige, Astronomer Almond, and Primordial Clam Chowder. But the researchers favored Cosmic Latte for its relatedness with Galileo. We’ll still give 10 points for creativity.
But if you’d ask us, Astro Boba would be more accurate. We don’t want to miss the comets and black stars out there!
Astrologists have better things to do than fighting over coffee and clam chowder. This mini color experiment was led by Karl Glazebrook and Even Baldry from world-renowned Johns Hopkins University. It was a by-product of a project on how stars were formed.
Bonus for some Pantone fans: at the beginning of the experiment in 2001, they gathered a result of a pale green-cyan color #9CFFCE (aka Magic Mint). After correcting some errors in their data, Cosmic Latte #FFF8E7 was officially called upon to reign.
