Mystery sea of stars? Rocket experiment finds surprising cosmic light
Friday, November 7, 2014 - 04:30
in Astronomy & Space
Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers have detected a diffuse cosmic glow that appears to represent more light than that produced by known galaxies in the universe. The discovery suggests that many such previously undetected stars permeate what had been thought to be dark spaces between galaxies, forming an interconnected sea of stars.