Telescopes May Be Our New Artist Paintbrushes

These 3 different telescopes have somehow captured the complexity of the heavens we gaze into at night. With brilliant hues of burgundy and red satin, they have painted an intricate picture of havoc in the galaxy involving comets, and stars and even Saturn. Why use paintbrushes when you have infared telescopes? Space dusts that swirl around a red eye goes from a light blue to an olive hue. How do they know what an impression they are making!
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Really impressing.I'm simply curious. Is this a "real life" picture ? If I were Superman and I could go walking there, would I see this exactly like on this picture ? Or are the coulours an electronical effect of differenciating electronical wavelength signals ?

I had posted this on my Facebook a while back, here's an article on the discovery itself: LINK

 

yordan: You're referring to an radio telescope I believe. The kind they use for the SETI project and deep space viewing, often set up in huge Y arrays. There they assign colour values to the different densities of sound much like they do on a cat scan to get a viewable image from data. This is an infrared telescope in this example see info on infrared astronomy HERE. Which is pretty much the same thing, "As infrared is essentially heat radiation." But depending on the type of telescope (not sure in this case the signal can be pretty close to viewable wavelengths so only minor tweaking is required. Other types could potentially present a vibrant image which would look alot different in person.

 

So I guess the answer is no its not "real life" but its potentially alot closer than other telescope technologies.

 

On a side note the image is of a system much like our own, in about 5 billion years our sun will do that.

 

-Jordan

Whoa! That's cool. Looks kind of like an eye. It does kinda look fake, but that's really cool if that's an actual picture. A natural work of art!

Wow neat pictures. It's so crazy to think we're increidbly small in such a vast universe. And also....it's so wild that there's so much left out there to explore!! Space is so incredible.

I know, to think that we're so small in such an empty seeming place so huge! x_x; It's confuzzling! But nature always amazes me at how beautiful and artistic it is, and how it changes so much and how those changes make for new art! lol I wish I had a digital camera so I could take pictures of all the "wow" stuff I see. But they're too expensive for me, so for now I'll just have to deal with enjoying it when I see it.

That is really cool . Orca, the "fake" effect is probably caused by what vitorious described.It looks so... Electrical. Explosion. Fire. I can't even describe it... Completely awesome.

Thats cool lol. That picture is awsome! It looks like someone panted it lol. That infrared space-based observatory is must be pretty powerful to get such a clear image of the nebula.

I'm simply curious. Is this a "real life" picture ? If I were Superman and I could go walking there, would I see this exactly like on this picture ? Or are the coulours an electronical effect of differenciating electronical wavelength signals ?

It is an infrared image. The real (visible light) image is probably very dark and just like the rest of space around it.

It might be a little bit enhanced in some ways too. If nothing else, probably something like lightening it or changing the contrast or something. Still a really awesome image.

lol I wish I had a digital camera so I could take pictures of all the "wow" stuff I see. But they're too expensive for me, so for now I'll just have to deal with enjoying it when I see it.

I bought a Poloaroid Digital Camera from Cdiscount.com, it costed me 30 euros. It's not really too expensive.Of course, more expensive cameras do more sophisticade things, but my 30 euros one does most of the job, helping me to be on the right place at the right moment.

These 3 different telescopes have somehow captured the complexity of the heavens we gaze into at night. With brilliant hues of burgundy and red satin, they have painted an intricate picture of havoc in the galaxy involving comets, and stars and even Saturn. Why use paintbrushes when you have infared telescopes? Space dusts that swirl around a red eye goes from a light blue to an olive hue. How do they know what an impression they are making!View the pics at http://news.a.com.com/

What happens when Hydrogen gas is excited by hot iron gas? Since the hydrogen gas is so dense you can see blue streaks left by the hot iron gas and the orange you see is the hydrogen gas. Hence, we see some more spectacular displays in the Nebula of Orion here at
space.com