Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.
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Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Yeah… You can basically say “this is x-ray but represented in <any color>”
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 12 hours 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.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 16 hours ago
But isn’t that what colors literally are?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.
Fucking WOKEYS! They’ve turned SPACE gay!
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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 1 day ago
Proof the universe wants you to be gay
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Bro, it’s not gay if you’re under the Milky way.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And fake
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?
Edge004@lemm.ee 13 hours 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 10 hours 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 12 hours ago
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
One of the blues looks green
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Made before Trump took office, right?
sheridan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?
ppue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sheridan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
thanks!
spinne@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day 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 1 day ago
this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year
Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The “In a specific wavelength” ones are cheating imo
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
See this rainbow? It’s the sun (in a certain wavelength)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 hour 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 1 day ago
neptune is also cheating. it’s not that blue and never was, it looks basically the same as uranus.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
👀
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
It’s also unrealistically bright. That far from the sun is about 900x dimmer than earth.
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 12 hours ago
All but purple, blue, black and cyan seem to be real-color. I have some doubts about brown too.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 11 hours 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? 🤔)