What Is the Average Color of the Universe?

Re:What Is the Average Color of the Universe? by jacobwcarlson on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:13PM (#8951051)

I know that they were trying to find the average wavelengths of visible light, and I loathe pedantry, but shouldn't the answer be "black"?

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Re:What Is the Average Color of the Universe? by stolio on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:23PM (#8951088)

In this context black is the absence of light, so it's disqualified right off the bat.

With a clear night and a good telescope there are a lot of stars out there. So I would say even the average color of the night sky looking out from earth wouldn't be black. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150101.html

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Re:What Is the Average Color of the Universe? by p00b on Monday January 26, 2015 @11:19PM (#8951216)

I couldn't resist curiosity and had to analyze that apod image just to see...

  Average Color (rgb): 62, 45, 51
  Average Color (hex): #3E2D33 
  Average Color (visual): http://i.imgur.com/xDBeHqu.png

  Source: http://pastebin.com/vckL3AP6
  Credit: http://charlesmartinreid.com/wordpress/2012/08/python-image-averaging-and-color-averaging/ (with some cleanup)

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