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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slightly adjusted desktop background

Slightly adjusted desktop background of initial image. Jupiter over star field.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I can practically hear the Cortex Command theme when it's portrayed like this

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

Jokes aside, damn thatssa a pretty planet

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider"

Kids say this to each other

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Thanks ! Never heard it before

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some of us went to Mars, to get candy bars.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And I went to Venus, to get more...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

fabulous !! you got more fabulous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks. The rhyme doesn't really make sense though, right? Or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's not based in logic, unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Isn't that artificially colored?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ya, but I rather think about it as an 'enhanced spectrum' image. The structures you see are all real and similarly coloured, it's just enhanced

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ahh, yes. Crank the saturation, crush the shadows, and blast the highlights.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jupiter's gonna have a bomb tinder profile now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Almost all gas giant images are

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Neptune's a dull grey.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The famous Jupiter one isn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not quite. It's based on real wavelenths detected, but they might've been arificially assigned colours (although I think the images this is based on sort of correspond to human perception). But the colours are massively adjusted and contrast increased way past the point I would consider reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

These images are mindblowing. Bring me back down to Earth? Do you have a favorite image with reasonable coloring and contrast?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Mmnm I bet there's chocolate nugat and bipedal organisms in there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are jet winds circling around Jupiter westwards and ones that are circling the other way, which creates turbulence, and there are ginormous thunderstorms as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

the storms, and different chemical/compositions im guessing.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is a really good question. I suspect the color in the image has been enhanced. I've been trying to find a scientific reason that the clouds could appear blue, but haven't found anything conclusive.

However, I did find a NASA page with raw images of Jupiter.

Here's a raw image:

Here's an image that's been color-enhanced:

It's not uncommon for space images to be color-enhanced. On the one hand, it may feel less authentic. On the other hand, the visible light levels in space may be insufficient for our expectations and uses anyway. Although I don't know the origin of the picture at the top of this page, I know that it's common practice for space photos to be enhanced. In fact they're often taken in non-visible spectrums and fully converted to something humans can see and comprehend. Ever see detailed, colorful photos of galaxies? They were probably taken in X-ray and colorized in processing. Cool as it would be, you wouldn't see those colors in real life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The junocam page has raw shots from the actual device: https://www.msss.com/all_projects/junocam.php

Caption of another:

Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.

In other words, the images you see are heavily processed composites...

Dare I say, "AI enhanced," as they sometimes do use ML algorithms for astronomy. Though ones designed for scientific usefulness, of course, and mostly for pattern identification in bulk data AFAIK.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I believe the image is from one of the poles, rather than the side view we usually see.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Stary night vibes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't get it, do you mind explaining?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's a thing kids say to taunt each other, "girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider".

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...or vice versa, usually depending on the taunter's gender.

Also, see xkcd 1202 and 2771

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Now I've got a hankering for pamplemousse 😄

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Ah, got it, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What does that... mean? Is it a jab about college attendance demographics skewing towards women?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kids don't know about college demographics. It's a dumb thing kids say to tease each other. Like 7 year old kids. It just means boys are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah one of the ~~Moody blues~~ someone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it click

EDIT oops I meant "comic." I got distracted by the Moody Blues playing on the radio.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That looks like a lot of storms

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Definitely flat too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm no scientist, butt I believe that is an image of Jupiter's Uranus

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sexyy photo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It used to be called Christianpiter.

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