Hi Jasmine, this picture is amazing, for starters 😍 but I’ve been wondering for a while about the colours in pictures like this - can you help? eg Is it really that colour? Is it false colour showing various em waves? Or something else entirely?! Thank you 🙏☺️
When I saw that Galaxylover acc stole this post I blocked em so fast, they followed me too and that was enough to raise a brow and poke em to see what what was going on. Not that hard to just repost the damn thing, wtf…
Both Webb and Chandra see light our eyes can't see (infrared and X-rays), so much of this object would be invisible if you visited it. In that sense all the colors are artificial, but they're chosen to help us interpret what the telescopes see. Reds = X-rays, orange/yellow/greens/blues = infrared.
My fave nebula! BTW, NGC602's bright enough in visible light for a great image through Hubble's ACS camera. Below is a comparison. Main differences are incredibly greater detail and lack of the glow of visible Hydrogen-alpha emissions excited by UV from the large stars. https://esawebb.org/videos/weic2425c/
Yes, good point. I'm not criticizing the poster. And I understand using filers, different telescopes, and processing to show a fuller picture, and differentiation, of the incredible features. My whinge is that recently, it seems that cranking color saturation to the max is in style.
Oh, that’s beautiful. I wish I was in the future when we’d figured out how to go really really fast, or fold space or whatever it is we’re going to do - I want to fly through that.
image credit: x-ray: NASA/CXC; infrared: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeilder, E.Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani; image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand
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https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/First_young_brown_dwarfs_found_outside_the_Milky_Way
Can I remix this please
Ill give you credit
I have a few mixing ideas for selfies with this