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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought the tops of sprites reached space

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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

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

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