And the answer is, at least some, but not much.
While not visible to the human eye, these rays do count as light.
But determining exactly what level this is has been a major challenge.
Deep space isn’t as bright as this artist’s rendition would have you believe.© NASA, APL, SwRI, Serge Brunier (ESO), Marc Postman (STScI), Dan Durda
You may not be surprised to find that things are pretty dark.
Once you get away from galaxies and their billions of stars, theres really not much to see.
Looking outside the galaxies, we find darkness there and nothing more.
These weird, non-galaxy light sources apparently dont actually exist.
The results show that the great majority of visible light we receive from the universe was generated in galaxies.
These latest findings could go a long way towards soothing some hurt feelings.
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