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Just how dark is the universe? NASA's New Horizons probe gives us best estimate yet

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NASA 's New Horizons probe has arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark deep space is.

The cosmic optical background (COB) is 100 billion times dimmer than the light we see on Earth .

The faint glow from the births and deaths of trillions of galaxies and their countless stars ever resided in our universe.

New Horizons is 5.5 billion miles ( 8.7 billion kilometers ) from Earth .

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