Happy Pride ✨️
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 05 Jun 23:29
https://mander.xyz/post/31484893

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spinne@sh.itjust.works on 05 Jun 23:37 next collapse

I bet the designer is a quilter at NASA :)

Sasquatch@lemmy.ml on 05 Jun 23:52 next collapse

The “In a specific wavelength” ones are cheating imo

shalafi@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 00:07 next collapse

Meh, space might as well be B&W to our eyeballs. About every space pic we see is dialed into particular wavelengths.

Mad props on the creativity! Be cool to see one made of all Earth photos, and much easier I would guess.

Cethin@lemmy.zip on 07 Jun 07:31 collapse

While you’re correct, the “specific wavelength” images still seem like cheating. Sure, purple would be pretty hard otherwise (and that purple color is a typical false color for nebulas, while the sun one is not typical for most people to see), the cyan shouldn’t be hard to do. There’s plenty of satalite pictures of earth with the right color, or the atmosphere. Maybe they don’t want too many earth pictures, but they could ditch the white clouds for Pluto or something. White is easy. Green would be harder to replace.

tdawg@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 00:08 next collapse

See this rainbow? It’s the sun (in a certain wavelength)

qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website on 06 Jun 04:19 collapse

Yeah, though it looks like the cyan (which would be ~500nm) is actually false color UV image, judging by the same color scale as this www.nasa.gov/…/5-3-2024_sdo_x1pt6_flare_131/

Lemjukes@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 02:13 next collapse

Especially with Uranus right there for blue… i feel like Crab Nebula for purple can get a pass though.

chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Jun 04:46 next collapse

neptune is also cheating. it’s not that blue and never was, it looks basically the same as uranus.

gwilikers@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 06:12 next collapse

👀

DoubleSpace@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 14:04 collapse

It’s also unrealistically bright. That far from the sun is about 900x dimmer than earth.

Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca on 07 Jun 16:50 collapse

By that argument, most of these should be black.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 06 Jun 20:35 collapse

All but purple, blue, black and cyan seem to be real-color. I have some doubts about brown too.

Crankenstein@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 22:06 collapse

Which is weird that black isn’t just a picture of the night sky. Has to be some fancy IR Hubble image that’s been redshifted back to “true” (so doesn’t that make it technically real-color again even though it’s been manipulated? 🤔)

Madison420@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 23:52 collapse

Let’s be honest the color “black” is just strange anyway because it is and isn’t a color in a weird way.

pennomi@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 00:51 next collapse

Proof the universe wants you to be gay

AtariDump@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 01:27 next collapse

And fake

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca on 06 Jun 13:16 collapse

Bro, it’s not gay if you’re under the Milky way.

Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Jun 00:52 next collapse

this has been my wallpaper for I think a little over a year

sheridan@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 02:11 next collapse

Anyone have a link to a version large enough for a 4k wallpaper?

ppue@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 04:13 collapse

…google.com/…/1Tqlg9nt4KiKyM8hiYLrT8vPGr3uCq8Q4

sheridan@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 13:48 collapse

thanks!

SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one on 06 Jun 02:51 next collapse

Means nothing coming from NASA, while they’re engaging in Lavender Scare 2.0 at the behest of their Paperclipped masters.

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 03:47 next collapse

Made before Trump took office, right?

Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jun 05:03 next collapse

What is a sprite in this context? As in the red part?

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 05:22 collapse

Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They’re red because of nitrogen. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

Blackmist@feddit.uk on 06 Jun 13:42 next collapse

All that. Right there in the night sky. Where kiddies can see it.

Fucking WOKEYS! They’ve turned SPACE gay!

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml on 06 Jun 13:59 next collapse

Not gonna lie, using a different wavelength feels like cheating when it comes to obtaining a color.

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 06 Jun 16:26 next collapse

But isn’t that what colors literally/fundamentally are?

Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca on 07 Jun 16:47 collapse

Selecting one wavelength are discarding all the others, and sometimes shifting that wavelength to a more convenient hue is great for science, but feels like cheating when looking for a specific colour.

It’s like looking for pictures of red cars, and getting a car that’s 90% rust, a picture taken in a forest fire, and a picture taken through red-tinted glass.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jun 19:54 next collapse

Yeah… You can basically say “this is x-ray but represented in <any color>”

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 06 Jun 20:30 collapse

Surprisingly many seem to be in real color: white, pink, red, orange, maybe brown, probably green, and yellow. (The well-known Neptune image is false color; Hubble deep-field is IR but that is redshifted so IDK, may be “real” color too.) Too bad white, pink and red are Earth’s atmospheric phenomena, of which only the aurora is really space-related, and green is just a satellite photo. Still, within NASA’s scope I guess.

ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee on 07 Jun 17:12 collapse

I thought the tops of sprites reached space

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 07 Jun 19:06 collapse

Sure but they are atmospheric phenomena because they need gas to happen.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 16:06 next collapse

I thought the pride flag was a rainbow top to bottom?

Edge004@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 20:25 next collapse

That’s an older version of the pride flag. There have been a few designs. The rainbow top to bottom one is still very popular. This website describes some of the different flags.

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jun 22:58 collapse

I read that the progress pride flag is copyrighted and some people (or a single person) may be profiting from it.

Several sources seemed coherent with this. That’s why I try to keep away from it. And also it seems be mostly used in USA anyway, I haven’t seen it much around Europe.

dustyData@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 23:27 collapse

The pride flag was envisioned and flown for the first time in San Francisco. For better or worse, most of global queer culture is us centric.

Most of the flags are also copyrighted or copylefted, to some degree or another. It’s a jumbled mess. But in general no one is profiting unless you are literally buying a physical flag, as all of them fall into fair use or can be freely licensed for use in commercial products.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world on 09 Jun 16:20 collapse

In fact the creator of the lesbian flag is routinely begging to avoid homelessness

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 06 Jun 20:27 collapse

Wikipedia: Progress Pride Flag

Opisek@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 19:21 collapse

You need to escape the closing bracket.

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org on 07 Jun 20:20 collapse

You are correct but not with a backslash but %29.

ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world on 07 Jun 01:27 collapse

One of the blues looks green