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Color Your Infrared Nebula

CRcrkcity•Created January 25, 2024
Color Your Infrared Nebula
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Adjust colors as you wish. NASA scientists do this with infrared bands to render the invisible beautifully visible. Try setting the three to equal levels, say 50 for each. Set a color to 100, and the others to 0, yields one color. Combining the colors yields more info, as each color represents a wavelength that reveal an element or molecule. Different elements, say atomic hydrogen, molecular hydrogen, oxygen, show up as different colors.

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Mostly dark to the human eye, the crab nebula is seen with infrared artistry. Part science, part art, each color is "false" (not what naked eye would see) but NASA scientists assigned each of three narrow band wavelength images to visualize what otherwise would be invisible. Two of three images were taken in the infrared region. Humans can't see infrared with the naked eye. It's a mosaic image of the Crab Nebula, from images taken by Hubble in October 1999, January 2000 and December 2000. The colors in the image represent different elements that were expelled during the explosion.

Project Details

Project ID956361947
CreatedJanuary 25, 2024
Last ModifiedJanuary 26, 2024
SharedJanuary 25, 2024
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