Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.
Yeah... You can basically say "this is x-ray but represented in "
Surprisingly many seem to be in real color: white, pink, red, orange, maybe brown, probably green, 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.
I thought the tops of sprites reached space
Sure but they are atmospheric phenomena because they need gas to happen.
But isn't that what colors literally/fundamentally are?
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.
All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.
Fucking WOKEYS! They've turned SPACE gay!
I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?
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.
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.
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.
One of the blues looks green
The "In a specific wavelength" ones are cheating imo
See this rainbow? It's the sun (in a certain wavelength)
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/
neptune is also cheating. it's not that blue and never was, it looks basically the same as uranus.
It's also unrealistically bright. That far from the sun is about 900x dimmer than earth.
By that argument, most of these should be black.
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All but purple, blue, black and cyan seem to be real-color. I have some doubts about brown too.
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? 🤔)
Let's be honest the color "black" is just strange anyway because it is and isn't a color in a weird way.
Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.
What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?
Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They're red because of nitrogen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
Proof the universe wants you to be gay
Bro, it's not gay if you're under the Milky way.
And fake
Made before Trump took office, right?
Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?
I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)
Means nothing coming from NASA, while they're engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.
this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year
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