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Does the Hubble Telescope take real pictures?
TLDR: Yes, Hubble images are real. This series of posts is dedicated to the scrutiny of Hubble imagery and a broader discussion of the veracity of astronomical imagery.
How do they get pictures from Hubble telescope?
Hubble uses a digital camera. It takes pictures like a cell phone. Then Hubble uses radio waves to send the pictures through the air back to Earth.
Why are images taken by the Hubble telescope so old?
The world’s first space telescope finally launched aboard space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. The telescope’s images came back so blurry that they were close to useless. Hubble’s main mirror had a defect — a spherical aberration caused by a manufacturing error.
What does a real nebula look like?
Most nebulae – clouds of interstellar gas and dust – are difficult if not impossible to see with the unaided eye or even binoculars. But the Orion Nebula is in a class nearly all by itself. It’s visible to the unaided eye on a dark, moonless night. To me, it looks like a star encased in a globe of luminescent fog.
Are Hubble images real?
TLDR: Yes, Hubble images are real. This series of posts is dedicated to the scrutiny of Hubble imagery and a broader discussion of the veracity of astronomical imagery. In this post, we’ll look at the distracting image artifacts that are removed when creating press imagery.
Is the Hubble Space Telescope’s full-colour photos fake?
The Hubble can only take images in black and white. Does this mean its gorgeous full-colour photos are “fake”? Well, actually… no. The Carina Nebula, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/NASA
Can you fly through Hubble Space Telescope images in 3D?
(Image credit: J. P. Harrington (U. Maryland) & K. J. Borkowski (NCSU) HST, NASA) The nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos and is even the star of a new 3D IMAX movie that gives viewers a chance to fly through those snapshots.
Will NASA’s JWST see anything like Hubble?
The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won’t see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWST to be an infrared telescope.