Progress in understanding the di use UV cosmic background

I report on progress in my ongoing work with Professor Jayant Murthy concerning the origin and nature of the diffuse ultraviolet background radiation over the sky. We have obtained and are reducing a vast trove of Voyager ultraviolet spectrometer observations of the diffuse background shortward of Lα, including for the first time measurements made from the outermost regions of the solar system, where noise from solar-system scattered (and then grating-scattered) solar Lα is lowest. Also, we have obtained and are investigating the complete set of GALEX observations of the diffuse ultraviolet background longward of Lα. Preliminary investigation appears to confirm that longward of Lα there exists a component of the diffuse ultraviolet background that is not dust-scattered starlight.