Science
Space is dark, but scientists have found unexplained light. – NPR
Scientists have used a NASA probe way out in space, beyond Pluto, to measure visible light that’s not connected to any known source like stars or galaxies.
Scientists have used the New Horizons spacecraft, billions of miles from Earth, to measure the darkness of space.
NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Look up at the night sky and, if you’re away from city lights, you’ll see stars. The space between those bright points of light is, of course, filled with inky blackness.
Some astronomers have wondered about that all that dark space–about how dark it really is.
“Is space truly black?” says Tod Lauer,…
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