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.
Isn’t that artificially colored?
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
Almost all gas giant images are
Yeah. Neptune’s a dull grey.
The famous Jupiter one isn’t.
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.
These images are mindblowing. Bring me back down to Earth? Do you have a favorite image with reasonable coloring and contrast?