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This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are those nasa colors because nasa has to filter it most of the time for it to be accurate to we what the human eye would see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Titan is pretty much yellow. JWST is an infrared telescope, so it doesn’t show the visible spectrum we see. So the colors mean something, but they don’t mean, “what humans would see when looking at it with their eyes.” There are many visible spectrum images of Titan from other sources, however.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mid-infrared and NIR for jwst.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I see, thanks for the clarification.