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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Isn't that artificially colored?

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ya, but I rather think about it as an 'enhanced spectrum' image. The structures you see are all real and similarly coloured, it's just enhanced

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ahh, yes. Crank the saturation, crush the shadows, and blast the highlights.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Jupiter's gonna have a bomb tinder profile now

[–] fayaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago
[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Almost all gas giant images are

Yeah. Neptune's a dull grey.

The famous Jupiter one isn't.

[–] lemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not quite. It's based on real wavelenths detected, but they might've been arificially assigned colours (although I think the images this is based on sort of correspond to human perception). But the colours are massively adjusted and contrast increased way past the point I would consider reasonable.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

These images are mindblowing. Bring me back down to Earth? Do you have a favorite image with reasonable coloring and contrast?