Scientists measure brightness of the universe with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 13:31
in Astronomy & Space
Images taken by NASA's New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.