{"id":36052,"date":"2017-04-11T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-helps-scientists-measure-brightness-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:14:53","slug":"nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-helps-scientists-measure-brightness-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-helps-scientists-measure-brightness-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft helps scientists measure brightness of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-helps-scientists-measure-brightness-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 11 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists have struggled to define the upper limit of the cosmic optical background, the total amount of light produced by all of the galaxies in the universe. But new observations from NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft have allowed astronomers to place a ceiling on the measurement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetermining how much light comes from all the galaxies beyond our own Milky Way galaxy has been a stubborn challenge in observational astrophysics,\u201d Michael Zemcov, an assistant professor of astrophysics at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Rochester_Institute_of_Technology\/\" title=\"Rochester Institute of Technology\" class=\"\">Rochester Institute of Technology<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rit.edu\/news\/story.php?id=60991\" target=\"_blank\">said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reflection of the sunlight off interplanetary space dust makes the task of measuring the cosmic optical background from Earth quite difficult.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/04\/11\/NASAs-New-Horizons-spacecraft-helps-scientists-measure-brightness-of-the-universe\/7501491939680\/?utm_source=fp&amp;utm_campaign=ls&amp;utm_medium=5\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/04\/11\/NASAs-New-Horizon...m_medium=5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists have struggled to define the upper limit of the cosmic optical background, the total amount of light produced by all of the galaxies in the universe. But new observations from NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft have allowed astronomers to place a ceiling on the measurement. \u201cDetermining how much light comes from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48186,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36052\/revisions\/48186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}