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The Universe is not turquoise - it's beige.
In January 2002, the true colour of the Universe was declared as somewhere between pale turquoise and aquamarine, by Ivan Baldry and Karl Glazebrook at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland.
A few months later, Glazebrook says: "I'm very embarrassed, the true colour is closer to beige" .
The mistake was caused by a bug in the software Glazebrook had used to convert the cosmic spectrum into the colour the human eye would see if it was exposed to it. "There's no error in the science, the error was in the perception," says Glazebrook.Reported by the NewScientist.com's news.
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