Intergalactic Space is Brighter Than Thought, NASA Rocket Experiment Shows

Time-lapse image of a Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) rocket launch, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2013. This was the fourth flight of CIBER. Image Credit: T. Arai/University of Tokyo

The universe is vast, and apart from the stars and galaxies, a seemingly very dark and empty place, with utter blackness [...]