Are the James Webb Space Telescope's Pictures 'Real'? Jen Christiansen & Clara Moskowitz Ancient Stargazers Saw Betelgeuse Shine a Different Color James Riordon. How are colors chosen for JWST images? Are JWST images 'real'? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an unprecedented level precision and sensitivity. We see space photos and think that's just beautiful, but the truth is that we can't really see the exact colors of space because it emits s.
The photos of space you see go through a complicated but important process from grayscale to their vivid coloration. However, all digital cameras-from your phone to the James Webb Space Telescope-can't actually see in color. Digital cameras record images as a bunch of ones and zeros, counting the amount of.
Photos of space are everywhere online. Their beauty is dazzling, showing a universe awash in color and light. But if you're a skeptic, you've likely wondered whether it all truly looks like.
Photos: Dylan O'Donnell In these images you can see how different the same object can look, using different data. The top image is a natural color image taken with a color camera, the bottom image is a 50/50 blend of a natural color image with an image using filters focusing on hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur (HOS image). The most common question we get asked about Hubble images is, "are the colors real?" What folks usually mean is, are these what the images would look like if we could travel in the Starship Enterprise to these cosmic landscapes? Or maybe more practically, if we could look through the Hubble Space Telescope.
That would be incredibly awesome, but even the astronauts who serviced Hubble. The Truth About Hubble, JWST, and False Color By Maggie Masetti September 13, 2016 Comments Off on The Truth About Hubble, JWST, and False Color I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images.
The Hubble can only take images in black and white. Does this mean its gorgeous full-colour photos are "fake"? Well, actually no. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get.