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• Sasquatch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The “In a specific wavelength” ones are cheating imo

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    See this rainbow? It’s the sun (in a certain wavelength)

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    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, though it looks like the cyan (which would be ~500nm) is actually false color UV image, judging by the same color scale as this www.nasa.gov/…/5-3-2024_sdo_x1pt6_flare_131/

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Meh, space might as well be B&W to our eyeballs. About every space pic we see is dialed into particular wavelengths.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      While you’re correct, the “specific wavelength” images still seem like cheating. Sure, purple would be pretty hard otherwise (and that purple color is a typical false color for nebulas, while the sun one is not typical for most people to see), the cyan shouldn’t be hard to do. There’s plenty of satalite pictures of earth with the right color, or the atmosphere. Maybe they don’t want too many earth pictures, but they could ditch the white clouds for Pluto or something. White is easy. Green would be harder to replace.

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  • chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    neptune is also cheating. it’s not that blue and never was, it looks basically the same as uranus.

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    • gwilikers@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      👀

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    • DoubleSpace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s also unrealistically bright. That far from the sun is about 900x dimmer than earth.

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  • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All but purple, blue, black and cyan seem to be real-color. I have some doubts about brown too.

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    • Crankenstein@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which is weird that black isn’t just a picture of the night sky. Has to be some fancy IR Hubble image that’s been redshifted back to “true” (so doesn’t that make it technically real-color again even though it’s been manipulated? 🤔)

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah… You can basically say “this is x-ray but represented in <any color>”

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Surprisingly many seem to be in real color: white, pink, red, orange, green (probably) and yellow. (The well-known Neptune image is false color; Hubble deep-field is IR but that is redshifted so IDK, may be “real” color too.) Too bad white, pink and red are Earth’s atmospheric phenomena, of which only the aurora is really space-related, and green is just a satellite photo. Still, within NASA’s scope I guess.

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    • ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I thought the tops of sprites reached space

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  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But isn’t that what colors literally are?

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Selecting one wavelength are discarding all the others, and sometimes shifting that wavelength to a more convenient hue is great for science, but feels like cheating when looking for a specific colour.

      It’s like looking for pictures of red cars, and getting a car that’s 90% rust, a picture taken in a forest fire, and a picture taken through red-tinted glass.

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• Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They’re red because of nitrogen. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Proof the universe wants you to be gay

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And fake

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bro, it’s not gay if you’re under the Milky way.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.

  Fucking WOKEYS! They’ve turned SPACE gay!

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• sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?

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  • ppue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …google.com/…/1Tqlg9nt4KiKyM8hiYLrT8vPGr3uCq8Q4

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    • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      thanks!

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?

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  • Edge004@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s an older version of the pride flag. There have been a few designs. The rainbow top to bottom one is still very popular. This website describes some of the different flags.

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I read that the progress pride flag is copyrighted and some people (or a single person) may be profiting from it.

      Several sources seemed coherent with this. That’s why I try to keep away from it. And also it seems be mostly used in USA anyway, I haven’t seen it much around Europe.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wikipedia: Progress Pride Flag

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    • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You need to escape the closing bracket.

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• spinne@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)

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• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Made before Trump took office, right?

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• SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Means nothing coming from NASA, while they’re engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.

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• Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year

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• ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One of the blues looks green

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