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HappyMaskSalesPerson t1_j97vnok wrote

Hubble telescope still pulling its weight and giving us glorious pictures. I much enjoy this image.

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SeriousPuppet t1_j9bhkly wrote

Is this a real image or recreation?

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danielravennest t1_j9bwdmq wrote

It is definitely from Hubble. It has two sets of detectors, UV to near Infrared, and near IR to mid IR. It has a total of 77 filters, including "no filter" option. Scientific cameras use filters to produce color images because you get 3 times as many pixels as common phone cameras, which have separate pixels for RGB colors.

So depending on filter choice for an image, it may not look like this if you saw it with your eyes directly. But it is still a real image produced by a camera and a telescope.

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Caffeine_and_Alcohol t1_j9921q3 wrote

Curious, how come we arnt seeing photos from the new satellite we put up last year?

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DeanXeL t1_j99m3xu wrote

What the hell are you talking about? We've already gotten plenty of public pictures of JWST in the ONE year it's been in space, plenty of which has been spent calibrating.

This article is just a beautiful picture by Hubble, which is still doing a great job.

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HappyMaskSalesPerson t1_j99xtff wrote

They started coming out shortly before my birthday and it was the best birthday present to myself to treat myself to the pics. I had been looking forward to it for quite some time

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