Researchers have recently identified the coldest place in the universe. Known as the Boomerang Nebula, the object has a temperature of only one Kelvin, or -272.14° Celsius. The discovery was made by an international team of researchers led by Raghvendra Sahai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, using the Atacama Large Millimetre/ submillimetre Array, also known as the ALMA telescope. ALMA is an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes with an array of 66 large radio dishes, installed on a plateau 5,000 metres high in the Atacama desert in Chile where almost no humidity or vegetation to block its view of the heavens.
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