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APOD: 2009 November 1 -The Average Color of the Universe

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  • k7jeb, on 11/01/2009, -1/+27My new wallpaper graphic...
  • Draschomat, on 11/01/2009, -1/+25lol...I thought that my PC couldn't show the picture correctly. xD But it did. ^^
  • Bobski, on 11/01/2009, -1/+25Who'd a-thunk? Must be primordial that Beige is such a universally accepted neutral color.
  • fragMasterFlash, on 11/01/2009, -0/+23The average color of the universe is the same shade of beige as the Digg comment entry box?
  • silfiriel, on 11/01/2009, -0/+14can anyone find a hi-res of this?
  • halojedi20, on 11/01/2009, -0/+14Who else stared at the page, thinking the picture was still loading?
  • TobiasParker, on 11/01/2009, -0/+13Yeah i refreshed about 3 times before i stopped being retarded.
  • kss42, on 11/01/2009, -0/+10It's also the average color of Digg users.
  • sexybobo, on 11/01/2009, -0/+10Ah the glory of the universe averaged to one six character number #fff8e6
  • ChaosProfessor, on 11/01/2009, -1/+10this is a beautiful wallpaper for my computer
  • ChaosProfessor, on 11/01/2009, -0/+7yes, yes it is
  • ChaosProfessor, on 11/01/2009, -0/+7buried for calling it a lab top like some 50 year olds i know
  • inactive, on 11/01/2009, -0/+6████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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  • Mujokan, on 11/01/2009, -0/+6Now I'm freaked out.
  • GauteHauk, on 11/01/2009, -0/+5My god, it's full of stars!
  • mattmedwards, on 11/01/2009, -0/+5The universe is racist.
  • jmcenanly, on 11/01/2009, -1/+6When I attempt to go on-line with no connection, this is the color Firefox uses
  • nroose, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4FFF8E6
  • peacenbeatz, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4out of all the names.. cosmic latte?? unibeige was more clever than that..

    awesome article btw
  • Khast, on 11/01/2009, -1/+5... I think they got lazy today.
  • nategri, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3OK I see what they did. They took the entire spectrum and rescaled it to all the colors the eye can see. Arbitrary *****. What a pointless exercise.
  • darthvalium, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3i guess the folks at nasa wanted to see whether even the most blunt apod they could possibly come up with would end up on digg's front page.
  • rlwasabi, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3Is this a mean, median, or mode? The word average means nothing to me. :(
  • awiesner, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3I still think black would be the average color.
  • Mujokan, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3It's from 2004. But why you'd think John Hopkins would get money from TARP I don't know.
  • AlienMushroom, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2The average universe is so pinky horny.
  • Pobotrol, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2Bloody magnolia.
  • HotLeper, on 11/01/2009, -1/+3dugg for cosmic latte
  • moskrin, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Beige? That's almost as much of a letdown as The Color of Her Panties being plaid.
  • Mujokan, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2I make myself a latte every day, and it's a damn sight darker than that.

    I was going to say that this is as seen from Earth, but apparently they took out all the red shift. Fair enough i guess. http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/
  • Schizotypal, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2If you see my wife, tell her; hello.
  • 1b2a, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2I could use a cosmic latte right about now...
  • nategri, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Wait so is this averaged over the complete EM spectrum? It can't be, right? Seems kinda crazy to me that the average energy of photons in the universe just happens to fall in the 400-800 nm band. What about all those crazy redshifted CMB photons? There's gotta be TONS of 'em! I'm just a physicist. I need an astronomer to help me here.
  • Contajeerus, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Universe needs a paint job.
  • nroose, on 11/01/2009, -1/+2By the way, it is quite close to the bg color in the dig comment field!
  • Bytesage, on 11/23/2009, -0/+1Buried for being a cosmic waste of time.
  • Axiom0, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1maybe he works in a lab and he's on a "desktop" computer, but since he's in a lab it's a lab top computer.
  • Contajeerus, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1There's a reason for that.
  • goomba323, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1I'm scared.
  • Bobski, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Hey dude, I'm over Fifty and I've probably forgotten more about computers than you will ever learn in your lifetime. So watch yourself when you start calling names.
    k?:)
  • FamilyGal61687, on 11/02/2009, -0/+0LMAO!!! Yours too?!?!
  • Dan11023, on 11/01/2009, -3/+2astronomical FAIL
  • biddie67, on 11/01/2009, -3/+2I sure hope this study wasn't one of the projects funded by either the TARP or STIMULUS programs ...

    but kudos to whomever thought up "Cosmic Latte"
  • jajatson, on 11/01/2009, -5/+2I also thought that my lab top did'nt process it right, then I thought somebody partyed to much & didn't feel like putting a picture in. And of course the red is more dominate in the universe because it's getting older & cooler & spreading out.
  • MarineOnDope, on 11/01/2009, -4/+1By posting this comment, I increased the red and green in the universe ----->
    Therefore, the average color has changed so nasa is wrong. I will now bury this link for spreading false information.

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