Posted on 07/15/2022 12:31:45 AM PDT by LibWhacker
—> To create the spellbinding scenes that just debuted, scientists had to process and fill these images with color.
NASA artists coloring the pics.
I’ve seen old episodes of Gunsmoke that were colorized and the never seem accurate…
Webb is an infrared telescope, so they’re mapping infrared wavelengths up to visible wavelengths (== colors) so we can see them. If we made a picture of what Webb “sees” at the actual IR frequencies, it would just be a black rectangle, since our eyes don’t see infrared.
Exactly.
They spent billions to create pages for a NASA coloring book, hired artists to color their pictures and the released them to the public.
At least the Apollo mission got us Tang and moon rocks.
"pages for a coloring book" ... that's just ridiculous.
Named after a former NASA administrator
The public gets pictures not raw data
… tell that to the comic book artists that make the pretty pictures 🤗
And we can continue to pretend the universe looks just like that.
After Marvell Comics became woke, maybe it’s a positive work program…
Very nice summary. I would add that Charles Murray’s book “Apollo” does a good job providing insight into how the operations and missions were put together and managed.
Wow, and we thought there were a lot of stars.
Actually, we now see that there are immeasurably more galaxies than our minds can grasp and comprehend
The best comment I have heard was made here on Free Republic.
“We are seeing a distant galaxy with light from 13.4 billion years ago. Is that galaxy actually still there?”
That’s funny right there.
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Imagine the millions of civilizations that have come and gone in this universe In those billions and billions of years. And we’re one of them!!!! It is incomprehensible
He is the spitting image of Captain Pike after the accident near Talos 5
And what lies beyond the most distant galaxy?
Searching for intelligent life as there is none to be found on earth.
I would prefer they spent those dollars on Researching the oceans here where the Research would benefit the human race.
Go look at any unmodified picture of deep space, you will see little trace of color. Stars, nebula, galaxies all fade to dim white spots with little color.
By setting ‘filters’ on the images, they can see the way things move, especially in those dramatic planetary nebulas. They can also pick spots to get doppler information from for detailed data on which way and how fast things are moving.
I certainly see the turbulence in a nebula, and read the storm in my mind.
All of these are, of course, digital images, not film. Being digital makes it easier to apply tints to frequencies that we cannot see, but give us better information on what’s there. Seeing different colors for the molecules and atoms, and temperatures, makes it more real, and accurate, for the non-professional stargazers like me.
“The man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is most commonly linked to the Apollo moon program, not to science.””
Only an idiot liberal would claim Apollo was not science.
Probably pictures of aliens giving us the finger as they fly by in their UAPs.
because the pictures come down in the IR spectrum, so ya the picture in the raw are not pretty.. man you need some understanding of life.
man you need some understanding of life.
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So what? The question was does the public have access to the raw data, and the apparent answer is NO!
Understanding Life has nothing to do with the question.
Remember, there is no "look at it in visible light" alternative for most of this stuff.
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