Standing here staring at the screen. I’m working on art, and I’m wondering: what color are nebulae, anyway? All the images we see are artificially colored, so far as I know. Like this series of images from the Hubble, of the Crab Nebula. I could lose hours wandering through the image gallery on that site.
I could choose hot pinks and lime greens and be right. I could get deep into color theory and why certain colors make us happy, or introspective, or passionate… Or I could try to deduce the possible molecular composition of the gas clouds and what we know about the colors of the flames from those elements/compounds. That’s what the scientists do. The question then becomes: am I aiming for science, or art?
I could just use my imagination. Which requires more coffee.



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2 responses to “Coloring Nebula”
well, most color nebula pic are kinda blurry. the artificially colored ones are based off of those
What color are nebulae? Why, they’re nebulous, of course!
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