From a purely aesthetic pov, Hubbs is more ethereal. It feels like that is not a structure, just some gas & dust hanging out. JWest is crisp & clear, sure...but a bit more sterile. It looks almost solid & I feel like you can't see its soul.
I believe the Hubble image is visible light while the Webb is near infrared. This explains the difference as infrared will not be blocked by dust as much as visible light. So you see more of the dust that’s there in Hubble’s and more of the background stars in Webb that were blocked by the dust.
Was the color visualization done be the same cosmotographer? If not, then some of the difference may not be so much a function of the telescopes as two individual’s artistic interpretation.
If you’re referring to the “starbursts” those are called diffraction spikes or vaning. They are cause by the secondary mirror’s support vanes and are common in telescopes that use such a setup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
Thank you for informing me! I still feel as though they make my glasses feel smudged lol (since my glasses are usually smudged and they make lights look like Starbursts)
If you’re referring to the “starbursts” those are called diffraction spikes & are caused by the secondary mirror’s support vanes and are normal for telescopes using such a setup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
Wouldn’t some of the difference also have to do with the team that gives the pictures color? As neither telescope actually takes color images like this?
These pictures are typically in false colour. For me a "real" picture would look like something our eyes would see. But for Pillars of Creation, we would only see some black clouds against a faint glow from the Eagle nebula.
I don’t understand how they go from the flat image you linked to the ones they are sharing? What would we really see if we were closer? Why do they update the image. I don’t understand it
Light is a spectrum that goes from X-ray to infrared to visible light to UV and beyond; our puny human eyes can only pick up a small band of that spectrum, but with IR instruments we can see what is otherwise invisible.
"False color" is just adjusting the invisible bandwidths into the visible range.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
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"False color" is just adjusting the invisible bandwidths into the visible range.
The answer lies in perception.
One shows finer graphic detail.
Painters will use Hubble.
Scientists will use Webb.
Each has purpose.
nerds would know. 🤣🤣🤣
Friggin' nerd :P