• Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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        16 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? 🤔)

        • Madison420@lemmy.world
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          14 hours ago

          Let’s be honest the color “black” is just strange anyway because it is and isn’t a color in a weird way.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

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

      Mad props on the creativity! Be cool to see one made of all Earth photos, and much easier I would guess.

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        6 hours 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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      1 day ago

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