An artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft against the backdrop of deep space. The spacecraft has a triangular shape with a dish-shaped antenna connected to it. The bright lane of our Milky Wat galaxy is in the background. Seen edge-on, it in filled with countless stars, nebulae, and dust lanes.

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NEW: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft measured the feeble glow that comes from myriad galaxies filling the universe. The finding has settled a long-standing mystery about the source of background light: https://bit.ly/3X5XQ5D

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