One of the blues looks green
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?
You need to escape the closing bracket.
You are correct but not with a backslash but %29.
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.
Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.
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.
Yeah... You can basically say "this is x-ray but represented in "
But isn't that what colors literally/fundamentally are?
All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.
Fucking WOKEYS! They've turned SPACE gay!
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)
Made before Trump took office, right?
Means nothing coming from NASA, while they're engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.
Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?
this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year
Proof the universe wants you to be gay
Bro, it's not gay if you're under the Milky way.
And fake
The "In a specific wavelength" ones are cheating imo
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.
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.
👀
Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.
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/
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.
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.
I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)