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(Cracked.com) 11 Deep Space Photos You Wont Believe Arent Photoshopped


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Images from Hubble (and any other telescope, space or ground based) NEEDS to be photoshopped, for one reason:they're not "ready-made", you need to select bands to include in your image, and in which channels (in the photo), because some channels returns infra-red imagery, others return ultraviolet imagery, other light in the visible area, etc. so you need to make a choice.

Then you need to center those bands, because for number of reasons, they are not perfectly aligned.

And lastly, most of the time the image is sharpened, and the picture saturated a bit more. (not only for artistic purposes, seeing the color of a star or of the cloud/nebula helps greatly in guessing its composition, thus guessing its type).

A raw photo would simply be undisplayable (for everyone as well as the scientists themselves).

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I think the phrasing is bad, they obviously mean pictures that aren't faked.

Also from cracked.com: 12 Pictures of Space You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

Some of which have been photoshopped, of course.

I think another problem with the title is that some of the images are really famous, so it's not that hard to believe they're real.

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