Cosmic latte
| Cosmic latte | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FFF8E7 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 248, 231) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (42°, 9%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (98, 15, 70°) |
| Source | Karl Glazebrook |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Orangish white |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Due to flawed calculations, the average color of the universe was originally thought to be turquoise. | |
| Cosmic spectrum green | |
Cosmic latte is a term coined by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University to describe the average color of the galaxies of the universe as perceived by a typical human observer from the position of the Earth. In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the average color of the universe was a whiteish green. Still, they soon corrected their analysis in a 2003 paper in which they reported that their survey of the light from over 200,000 galaxies averaged to a whiteish beige. The hex triplet value (assuming the standard sRGB color space) for the cosmic latte color is approximately #FFF8E7.