ALMA reveals ghostly shape of 'coldest place in the universe'
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 14:30
in Physics & Chemistry
At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe – colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space.