How Real Are The James Webb Space Telescope Images?
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 Published On Mar 12, 2024

What does space really look like to the naked eye? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down what space looks like to us, the colors we see, and how telescopes like JWST help us explore the cosmos.

Is space really that colorful? Learn about the human eye, ROYGBIV, and what colors our eyes see. How do you make a color image from infrared light that we can’t see? What would the JWST picture of the Carina Nebula look like to the naked eye? And, finally, how do these color images help us do science?

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00:00 - Is Space Colorful?
00:32 - The Colors Humans See
3:32 - Making Images Out of Infrared Light
5:18 - Are Space Images Fake?
9:19 - How Color Images Help Science
10:59 - A Philosophical Point About Color

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