Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yeah… You can basically say “this is x-ray but represented in <any color>”
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I thought the tops of sprites reached space
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
But isn’t that what colors literally are?
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They’re red because of nitrogen. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Proof the universe wants you to be gay
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And fake
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Bro, it’s not gay if you’re under the Milky way.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.
Fucking WOKEYS! They’ve turned SPACE gay!
sheridan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?
ppue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sheridan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
thanks!
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?
Edge004@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Opisek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You need to escape the closing bracket.
spinne@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Made before Trump took office, right?
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
Means nothing coming from NASA, while they’re engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.
Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One of the blues looks green
Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The “In a specific wavelength” ones are cheating imo
tdawg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
See this rainbow? It’s the sun (in a certain wavelength)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 weeks 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/
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meh, space might as well be B&W to our eyeballs. About every space pic we see is dialed into particular wavelengths.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
neptune is also cheating. it’s not that blue and never was, it looks basically the same as uranus.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
👀
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It’s also unrealistically bright. That far from the sun is about 900x dimmer than earth.
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
All but purple, blue, black and cyan seem to be real-color. I have some doubts about brown too.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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? 🤔)