Are the pics from the hubble telescope docterd or are the colors in space really the brilliant?
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The pictures you see that are released by nasa or whoever are doctored. If you were out in space you would basically see what you see now. There are some differences in colors of stars, for example bettleguise ( forgive my horrible spelling) is a red giant and is a red colored star. However this really isn't what were talking about here. When you see nebulae and such in those pictures they are quite pretty, blue, red, all sorts of stuff going on there. In the truth of the matter if you could actually "look" through the hubble it would be just plain ole grey's and white's. Sometimes a picture is taken in several different wavelenghts and has each wavelength given as a different color. This is really not as common as some people think. I assure you that those amazing pictures that are full of color were processed to look amazing and not becasue they have these incredible colors themselves.\n\nOh one last thing, if you were up in space and you got a look at the sun it would appear bright white and not the yellow that we are used to here on the ground- the atmosphere gives it the color
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Some of the sattelites Google has been forced to use are quite old, but new imagery is being collected every day. Eventually there will be new high resolution pictures of the whole surface of the planet. I know a guy who is writing messages on his roof so he can see them in the sattelite pictures...he's kind of a nutjob.
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Absolutely......AWESOME!!\n\nLike floating in outerspace!!
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It's actually a composite of photos (as are most photos of space).  Some more information is here:\n\nhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000828.html\n\nwww.snopes.com has some information as well.  Type in Eye of God in the search box.
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You can see many of them with the naked eye, and some of the get pretty darn bright.  You can even see the inetrantional space station when it passes overhead.  Of course any of these objects will jusst look like a star moving across the sky at a decent rate.  But it is pretty cool.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com will tell you exactly what is visible from your location on any night, as well as where to look.  You'll need a little bit of amature astronomy knowledge (magnitudes, reading a starchart) to get much out of it, but it is an awsome resource for this kind of thing.
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We think so--up to a point.\n\nThere is something called the Hubble Shift--a change in the frequency of electromagnetic radiation that occurs due to the theorized expansion of the universe.  That boils down to things looking redder and redder the farther away they are.\n\nWhat's happening, as we currently understand it, is that we're seeing the light that was emitted however many years ago, that has taken that long to get here.  The trip may have caused some minor changes in the image, but the prevailing belief right now is that other than a little distortion (like from the Hubble effect, and gravitational lensing, and interacting with the dust and stuff between here and there) it's what it looked like then.
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Of course they are real. There are thousands of photos of crop circles.\nDid you mean "did aliens make crop circles?"  Probably not.  Too many people have said they made them and shown how. There's even directions online on how to do it! (See link.)
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is it possible that this might be called the cat's eye nebula?  if so, go to hubblesite.org. no specific listing for "god's eye"
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Mercury: Gray\nVenus: Bright white\nEarth: You have seen the pictures. Mostly blue with lots of white spots and swirls and maybe some green and tan for the land.\nMars: Pale salmon color.\nJupiter: White with horizontal brown bands.\nSaturn: Honey color\nUranus: Light blue\nNeptune : Darker blue.\nYou can see the pictures I have taken of these planets at the source below. I have tried to make the colors match, as closely as possible, what I really see in the eyepiece of the telescope, except for Mars which just looks too plain without enhancing the colors. For Mars, be sure to click on the "Click here to see more Mars images." link and see the one truly natural color picture about half way down the page.
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Yes, we see very bright, vivid, swirling tie-dye techni-colors. Oh, wait a minute, I thought you said Hippies. Sorry : )
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i believe it's the magnification (or other distortion such as increased brightness) of the appearance of a star in the sky or through a telescope. the diffraction can be eliminated digitally, but other than that i'm not sure.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is being built to replace Hubble. The Webb Telescope will be a large, infrared space telescope designed to provide even clearer pictures of our Universe than those received from Hubble. It's going to have a mirror that is about 2 1/2 times the diameter of the Hubble Mirror. ( The Hubble's mirror is 94[?] inches in diameter I believe, and the Webb Telescope mirror will be made up of 18 diagonal mirror pieces that will be about 250 inches in diameter.) It's also going to be about a million miles away from the bright Earth and have a Sunshade the size of a Tennis Court! The telescope's name sake, James Webb, was NASA's second Administrator years ago.\n   With telescopes, it's not really a question of "power." With my telescope the "power" depends on the eyepiece I use. It is actually more about how much light you can "gather." Think of it as being in a completely dark room with a magnifying glass and a flashlight. The powerful magnifying glass is really useless in the dark, but the flashlight could help you see anything and everything in the room, right? Well, space is about the darkest "room" you will ever find especially for looking deeper and deeper into the Cosmos. The bigger the mirror you have to detect the faintest stars and galaxies, the better.  These telescopes really aren't made to see really bright things- that's why you have never seen a Hubble photograph of the Moon. From Hubble's orbit just above the Earth, the Moon is just too bright.\n This may not be the most satisfying answer to your great question- I get that question all the time when I bring my telescope out- but I think you can see the advantage of having a flashlight in that dark room especially if you don't know where all the furniture is!!!
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the blue color of a beautiful sky
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It's a great toy. A 60mm aperture (2.4") won't gather much light (which also determines the amount of detail you can make out at higher magnifications). Is this a refractor? Cheap models suffer from various distortions produced by inferior coatings, poor collimation, etc.\n\nYou can see a long way (moon, mars, stars, etc), but thre real question is how good the image is (fuzzy, dim, etc)\n\nTry the following website (page goes to a celestron 760 mm refractor - a decent instrument. Lots of description.)\n\nhttp://www.telescope.com/jump.jsp?itemID=116608&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C4%2C13&KickerID=699&KICKER
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You might have seen a planet if it was bright, but also a lot of stars are red.  Cooler stars give off a red color.  There is nothing unusual about it.
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Very few splotches.  Check NASA website for hubble photos.
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Not really, but they look like twinkling because moving particles from space block the light that we see from down here so it looks like it's twinkling...Hope you understood my answer...sorry...