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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah... You can basically say "this is x-ray but represented in "

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I thought the tops of sprites reached space

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sure but they are atmospheric phenomena because they need gas to happen.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But isn't that what colors literally/fundamentally are?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 103 points 3 days ago

The "In a specific wavelength" ones are cheating imo

[-] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago

See this rainbow? It's the sun (in a certain wavelength)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days 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 https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/5-3-2024_sdo_x1pt6_flare_131/

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

neptune is also cheating. it's not that blue and never was, it looks basically the same as uranus.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's also unrealistically bright. That far from the sun is about 900x dimmer than earth.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

By that argument, most of these should be black.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

All but purple, blue, black and cyan seem to be real-color. I have some doubts about brown too.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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? 🤔)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.

Fucking WOKEYS! They've turned SPACE gay!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?

[-] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They're red because of nitrogen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The pride flag was envisioned and flown for the first time in San Francisco. For better or worse, most of global queer culture is us centric.

Most of the flags are also copyrighted or copylefted, to some degree or another. It's a jumbled mess. But in general no one is profiting unless you are literally buying a physical flag, as all of them fall into fair use or can be freely licensed for use in commercial products.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You need to escape the closing bracket.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

You are correct but not with a backslash but %29.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Proof the universe wants you to be gay

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Bro, it's not gay if you're under the Milky way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Made before Trump took office, right?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Means nothing coming from NASA, while they're engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

One of the blues looks green

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year

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