1d ago

Happy Pride ✨️

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One of the blues looks green

Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.
- Yeah... You can basically say "this is x-ray but represented in
  <any 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 pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?
- 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.
- Wikipedia: Progress Pride Flag

All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.
Fucking WOKEYS! They've turned SPACE gay!

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? 🤔)
- 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/
- 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.
  
  👀
- 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.
- Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.