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Okay, so this is a little bizarre: according to astronomers, the average colour of the universe is...

January 11, 2002·1 min read

Okay, so this is a little bizarre: according to astronomers, the average colour of the universe is "light turquoise". Wasn't it Death, from the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, who first revealed that the universe is "duck egg blue"?

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