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Boring ass planet
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This is high art
sigh
Uh oh, something magical is about to happen
How long has this guy been staring at Uranus?
I don't know, but I'm cramping up.
Ursanus is boring to look at.
My anus is not.
We are not the same.
Prove it
Ursanus
You had one job!
looks like someone bleached Uranus
It's really awkward explaining this joke in other languages.
A Smurfs it looks like
TFW your friends think you're not cool anymore because you're actually white
Why does this keep happening? Is it me?
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Yeah so maybe both Neptune and Uranus look hazy and dull green in visible light. So what?! They're both entire worlds, significantly larger and vastly different in climate and tilt and composition and weather phenomena than our own, and we're lucky enough to have seen them up close with probes. They have layered structure that can be seen in other wavelengths (e.g. infrared) and so many mysteries we haven't yet conceived. Plus a ton of moons each that are weird and fascinating in their own right. They're not the least bit boring to a curious mind.
Plus they are gas planets. Fart miners are about to be rich with farts.
Your welcome for this contribution of taste and intellect.
Honestly it's the shitpost community so kinda fitting. Too bad your miners won't find much stinky sulfur after their decade+ journey.
Your comment formed a perfect pressure waveform.
Respiratory therapists only think about one thing and it's disgusting.
A pip and a peep? You flatter me sir/ma'am.
How did it take until 2023 to discern the true color of a planet we've known about since before humans found Antarctica?
Serious answer: the sensors in telescopes and probes don't work exactly like human eyes. They pick up a different range of frequencies than our cone cells in the first place, and don't have the same sort of overlapping input curves. There's a lot of tricks and techniques in converting an image into the same sort of thing we'd see with the naked eye. You can sorta think of it like translating Japanese into English; there's no perfect formula and it requires some creative interpretation no matter what.
The popular images that get published all over are simplistic composites and never really reflect the actual data astronomers rely on, so that was never a hindrance to scientific progress. It suddenly made the news because a research group decided to reevaluate the old data and reinterpret it against calibrations from other equipment (e.g. Voyager probe vs. the Very Large Telescope here on Earth). There's a general interest factor in "wow that looks so much different than the old pictures", when the underlying data really hasn't changed.
To add to this, we apparently always knew. The famous blue image is more or less the correct hue, but the saturation has been absolutely blown out like a clickbait youtube thumbnail in order to show faint features more clearly. Somewhere along the line we stopped mentioning that that had been done. Irwin and co just just re-calculated it to get the most accurate version yet, because we've got a lot more data to work with now than we did back when Voyager 2 did its fly-by
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Furthermore, it's not that the original scientists failed to produce true-color images. The original published images of Neptune had deliberately enhanced colors to better show some of the features of the cloud surface, and the description text of the images said as much. But that nuance was quickly forgotten and everybody just took the deep blue coloring to reflect the actual color of the planet, which spread to depictions of the planet everywhere.
Similar reason why these three photos look like slightly different colors: image sensor type, quality, and postprocessing.
Older images, less accurate. Especially if the type of image a system is capturing is not meant to be consistent with the human eye.
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Uranus can actually be quite fun if you know what you’re doing
literally an entire planet
”it’s boring because of colour!”
Just like jeans, the more you wash it, the more it fades.
TFW you thought you were cool, but it turns out you had a yee yee ass haircut all along.
Don't plain-shame, being basic is okay too
This is a billiard ball.
Really? I was thinking ping pong due to the lack of luster..
The bodies of the solar system arents trying except for Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth
Look at this eyesore.
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Made by the Jupiter gang.
I guess as long as we're talking about Uranus I don't need to correct your boring ass
to boring-ass.
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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