This is gorgeous.
How close to real (naked eye)l is this image coloring?
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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Well, the NIRCam is a Near-InfraRed Camera, so it wouldn't look like that in person.
They usually use shades of red and hues of pink for NIR.
This is more like what you'd see with the naked eye