/sci/ - Science & Math

>When Hubble scientists take photos of space, they use filters to record specific wavelengths of light. Later, they add red, green, or blue to color the exposures taken through those filters. The result is full-color images that have a variety of purposes for scientific analysis.

Basically, all the INCREDIBLE and HIGH DETAILED and COLOURFUL space pictures you see are just digitally enhanced. We don't actually know how they look like, or what their colours are. They're just added in on the assumption they look like that.

Imagine taking a photo of Mars in black and white and going "yeah, I think those craters are clouds and the planet is blue".

Here is a picture of what you can see by using the Hubble and this picture has been 400% upscaled for the PR purposes
In reality all they can see is a 700x400 pixel picture

So supernovae caused elements to disperse into the universe, eventually forming our solar system, rocks formed together to become earth, where did the stuff that was chemicals that turned into microbes on primordial earth come from? I'm trying to understand abiogenesis