Away From the Light Pollution of the Inner Solar System, New Horizons was Able to see how Dark the Universe Really is

Away From the Light Pollution of the Inner Solar System, New Horizons was Able to see how Dark the Universe Really is
By Paul M. Sutter

Just how dark is the universe, anyway? It’s a pretty hard thing to measure when we’re sitting this close to the sun. But NASA’s New Horizons probe is so far away that the images it takes of the distant universe are able to deliver the most accurate measurement ever of the universe’s diffuse background light. …

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January 26, 2021 at 08:23PM
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