James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail::The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula in vibrant green and purple, presenting one of the most well-known objects in astronomy like never before.
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This is beautiful!
I want to eat it
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GalactusIt looks like its lemon-lime flavor
It’s called rimming
Sabrina, don't just stare at it; eat it.
Hell no, this looks like snot.
Found Sauron. Turns out he's in space now.
The James Webb telescope does not capture any color information, it only captures IR radiation. You can color the IR based on frequency, but those are not the colors of that ring Nebula, but instead a mapping of color someone randomly selected.
Damn. Or ...they used a color observed with some visible light telescope.
It is actually blue with red around it. The colors here are completely made up. Here a picture from Hubble
So they are misleading us... Those bastards!