The average colour of the universe is ‘cosmic latte’, a pale beige. Where does the pale colour come from?

The average colour of the universe was calculated in 2002 by a study that looked at the light of over 200,000 stars. Despite much of the universe being characterised by dark, empty space, there are more than enough incredibly bright stars to make an average colour – as if you had mixed them all together – similar to a weak cup of coffee.

If you go to color-hex.com and enter the hex code #FFF8E7, you can see exactly what cosmic beige looks like