Astronomers have measured all the starlight ever emitted

by Aurelia Butler 29 November 2018, 19:00 119 Views

The tally counts up the stray photons roaming through space

THROUGH THE DARKNESS Gamma rays bursting from distant galaxies, like the one shown in the center of this artist’s illustration, can illuminate the diffuse light, called extragalactic background light, that manages escape its dusty environs.

Aurore Simonnet/Swift/NASA

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Astronomers have measured all the starlight ever emitted

The tally counts up the stray photons roaming through space

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Hints of Oort clouds around other stars may lurk in the universe’s first light

Astronomers find far-flung wind from a black hole in the universe’s first light

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