Hubble Telescope images and color
Posted by Anne Burdick on June 20, 2011 · Comments Off on Hubble Telescope images and color
Pages from NASA’s Hubble telescope website demonstrate how they assign colors within their amazing images. They use three approaches: natural color (what human eyes can see); representative color (using color to code portions of the image); and enhanced color. Of course the “images” are captured using filters that detect wavelengths invisible to the human eye … Read more
Filed under tools & technology, visuals · Tagged with interpretation, metaphor