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Michelle
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posted 19 December 2003 03:01 PM

Check out these gorgeous pictures.

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NASA unveiled the first views Thursday from its space infrared telescope, a super-cooled orbiting observatory that can look through obscuring dust to capture images never before seen.

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HeywoodFloyd
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posted 19 December 2003 03:14 PM

Did you know that all the images are taken in greyscale and sent to an artist for coloring?

Even the hubble picture are greyscale.

http://tinyurl.com/2n3nd

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Hinterland
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posted 19 December 2003 05:05 PM

Well, I'm impressed with the colouring...they stayed within the lines.

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DrConway
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posted 19 December 2003 05:59 PM

Heh. Well, infrared by itself doesn't have much meaning for us as we can't see it, only feel it. So false colors are de rigeur

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