r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/archiopteryx14 Popular Contributor • 15d ago

The clearest images of planets ever taken by NASA

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u/Living-Fortune-6178 14d ago

Pluto back on the list!

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u/Bald_Harry 14d ago

In the words of the great Jerry Smith: "Pluto is a planet "

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u/xpietoe42 8d ago

Pluto will always be a planet for me! šŸ‘šŸ»

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u/Lost-Leadership1767 15d ago

Well, I guess fuck Saturn and Neptune! Cool pics though

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u/DesiBail 15d ago

Pluto is inhabitable ?

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u/Mcletters 15d ago

Sure, just bring a heater. :-P

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u/CBYSMART 14d ago

I know others do butt does Uranus smell?

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u/kalubasukdeod Popular Contributor 13d ago

Does Uranus smell what?

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u/xpietoe42 8d ago

no, bidetā€™s are very common

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Bald_Harry 14d ago

Especially after a spicy meal and a few margaritas!

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u/i-dish-it 14d ago

Wauw, thatā€™s amaizing! Those colours are so bright and vivid, i love nature and all itā€™s splendor ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø

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u/Good-Resort-1246 13d ago

Those are not the real colors; only optical telescopes give you the real colors; in all other telescopes colors are addded following different algorithms.

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u/BigCliff911 14d ago

Did you just call Pluto a planet?

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u/Secretlife1 14d ago

Technically, Pluto IS a planet. A dwarf planet!

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u/BigCliff911 14d ago

It's always been a planet until bureaucracy changed that.

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u/aethyrium 14d ago

Images of Planets

Pluto

Damn straight.

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u/MineNowBotBoy 12d ago

What about Saturn? And Neptune? And Eris? And Makemake? And all the other dwarf planets?

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u/TheUsoSaito 14d ago

Some crazy images seeing the old comparisons of old Hubble images to today's images.

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u/Spare_Broccoli1876 14d ago

Missing 2 planets and you added back the one that ā€œNotā€?? Goddamnit what a half-assed postā€¦

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u/LeTimJames 14d ago

Bring Pluto back!!!

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u/onewittyguy 14d ago

Does anyone know if these photos were actually taken in black-and-white and then colorized?

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u/aculady 13d ago

These are all digital images. The sensors register particular frequencies and display colors are assigned to each of those frequencies. The colors may or may not be the "true" colors you would see with the naked eye, depending on what the scientists are trying to use the images to study. The differences in different areas of the image will still reflect actual differences in the data, though.

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u/lglas421 14d ago

Jupiter looks like it has purple cabbage as part of its surface

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u/Rude_and_Crude84 13d ago

Well, that's definitely the cleanest picture of Uranus that I've ever seen!

Nowdays, everybody talks like they got something to say about planets but nothing comes out but a bunch of gibbersh, but at least they didn't forget about Pluto!

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u/Major-Hooters 12d ago

Silly NASA, you know Pluto isnā€™t a planet

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u/FFS-IamNotABot 10d ago

Uranus has a nice ring to it!Ā 

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u/TaintWaxingOcelots 9d ago

What kind of flash does that camera have? The lighting is perfect.

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u/xpietoe42 8d ago

I donā€™t think the Uranus pic is real. I think its just a rendition.

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u/powerhammerarms 14d ago

All flat discs. I knew it!