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Post by damagedinc on May 13, 2023 8:14:11 GMT
I think they assign colours to certain wavelengths and use that as a guide. Obviously some artistic licence but there is some degree of "sense" to it.
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 13, 2023 9:57:21 GMT
Always wonder who makes those artist’s impressions. Right, the image of this thing is only 60 pixels, can you draw a giant gas cloud getting sucked into a supermassive black hole? This was literally (part of) my late wife's father's job. He was an "astronomical artist", and did most of the artwork for stuff like The Sky At Night (BBC programme), Astronomy Now (magazine) and the like. If you ever remember seeing it, for instance, he did the BBC Radio Times cover for the week when the Giotto probe (still can't read/write that without hearing it in Patrick Moore's voice!) interacted with the tail of Halley's Comet. Oh wow, sounds like an awesome job. Did he ever talk about his work? I guess I always wondered if they get feedback from the scientists on how it should look? Probably doesn’t help that a lot of this stuff is outside our visual spectrum, so in reality you wouldn’t see much. |
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Post by EMarkM on May 13, 2023 10:58:37 GMT
Oh wow, sounds like an awesome job. Did he ever talk about his work? I guess I always wondered if they get feedback from the scientists on how it should look? Probably doesn’t help that a lot of this stuff is outside our visual spectrum, so in reality you wouldn’t see much. It really was interesting. He travelled all over the world, documenting solar eclipses and the like, and the way in which he represented things that we cannot technically “see” was always very calculated and audience-dependent. As in, is this a fantasy/entertainment piece, or something more scientific? Working with Patrick could be very frustrating at times, for a variety of reasons, but we had a great time going to all the BBC parties and so on! |
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Post by Fake_Blood on May 13, 2023 16:01:55 GMT
I remember Patrick Moore, we had bbc 1 and 2 on cable when I lived in Brussels in the 80s and 90s. Very frustrating because he was at times incomprehensible for us.
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Post by EMarkM on May 13, 2023 16:06:35 GMT
I remember Patrick Moore, we had bbc 1 and 2 on cable when I lived in Brussels in the 80s and 90s. Very frustrating because he was at times incomprehensible for us. You should have heard him once we’d all had several whiskies! |
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Post by X201 on May 13, 2023 18:40:48 GMT
I think they assign colours to certain wavelengths and use that as a guide. Obviously some artistic licence but there is some degree of "sense" to it. When they have data that’s how they do it, this one though was pure artist’s impression. |
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 31, 2023 19:57:59 GMT
The first images from Euclid:
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 31, 2023 20:44:22 GMT
Which part is the dark matter?
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Post by X201 on Aug 1, 2023 5:10:13 GMT
The bits you can’t see
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2023 15:04:44 GMT
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Post by jellyhead on Aug 1, 2023 16:09:01 GMT
Obligatory...
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Post by X201 on Aug 12, 2023 18:48:55 GMT
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 20, 2023 9:19:58 GMT
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Post by Fake_Blood on Aug 20, 2023 12:04:00 GMT
Ceased to exist? So it’s an ex-lunar lander?
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 20, 2023 12:38:05 GMT
Clearly it didn't use its limited fuel supply properly, the original simulated landing.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 22, 2023 21:27:37 GMT
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 23, 2023 12:57:40 GMT
India's Luna mission has successfully made the first landing at the southern pole so the relative noobs have outdone the Russians this week.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 23, 2023 13:15:06 GMT
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 16, 2023 14:43:32 GMT
That’s beautiful. Always find it a bit weird when stars blow up that you see two jets or lobes, you’d think I’d be more or less spherical.
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Post by technoish on Sept 24, 2023 19:48:48 GMT
Ok, so this is where we get taken over / massacred by space alien organisms.
Was nice knowing y'all.
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Post by X201 on Sept 24, 2023 19:51:48 GMT
Humans seem to have screwed most things up on this planet, so I welcome our new microbe overlords
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Post by stuz359 on Sept 25, 2023 18:58:45 GMT
That’s beautiful. Always find it a bit weird when stars blow up that you see two jets or lobes, you’d think I’d be more or less spherical. Centrifugal forces. Stars rotate at massive speeds. |
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