@@LaunchPadAstronomy I literally just found channel today. And figuratively binged watched all your videos. (Actually, only about 13 in a row. Lol.) And I must admit, you have single-handedly rekindled the childlike an amazement I have for space, and space travel. please, I cannot wait another 6 months for you to come out with a new video. Please come out with more videos soon. I beg you. 😁😁😁
Thanks for showing Justin Cowart's reprocessed image! I knew I saw color-corrected Neptune years ago : ) Also thanks for digging out that original image reveal on TV.
Wait till you find out that they have smaller or bigger errors in basically everything they are reporting about... They don't know what they are talking about almost all the time, leading to a horrible number of bad misconceptions spread by them to the general public.
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Hey Christian, I hope your are well. I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for all the amazing space videos. You have an able to make the concepts so relatable.
I just want to say your content and expertise for all of you videos is brilliant and its a real shame you don't have more subscribers. Thank you for making these videos!
@LaunchPadAstronomy I literally just found channel today. And figuratively binged watched all your videos. (Actually, only about 13 in a row. Lol.) And I must admit, you have single-handedly rekindled the childlike an amazement I have for space, and space travel. please, I cannot wait another 6 months for you to come out with a new video. Please come out with more videos soon. I beg you. 😁😁😁 P.S. I felt like I did, as a child, watching the solar system space exploration episode of The Magic School Bus. And, though not as pretty as Miss frizzle, I must admit you are more informative. And my older age, I find that to be how much more value. Thanks again for the videos. Please don't make me wait another 6 months for another one, please! 😉😅😁
Thanks Christian, another great video that really gets to the heart of the matter. I remember reading a Discover magazine article about this subject titled "Colorizing the Cosmos" back in the 80's or 90's. Almost turned me off from Astronomy forever but I came back with a vengeance! Also, you may be a nerd but you're our nerd. Signed, fellow nerd.
On one hand I can understand scientist's frustration about false color images becoming so widespread in media, but on the other... _Pretty colors are pretty_
Curse those meddling astronomers who have corrected the images I've had in my mind for 35 years! My childhood was a lie! 😅 While it's a bit disappointing, the data returned is no less astounding. My mind was blown when the raw B&W images of Triton came in. "Cryovolcanos"? Whoa! And when the Voyager imaging team put together that animation showing that they were active *right now,* my jaw hit the floor!
I am new to University and I’m amazed people even get funding to do such research. As it is pretty much a rich persons hobby. Just doing some exploration for fun. I don’t think I’ll ever get funding for a paper, it feels wrong and the funders will no doubt want a certain result that I then have to produce for them.
I remember them saying at the time. This is a false colour image to highlight the cloud formations! If only thay asked me. I would have sorted it out!😂
I took pictures of both planets with my little 6''-Smith-Cassigrain telescope and my daily Canon dslr in an extremely clear night (which is rare here in Switzerland). Going back to these images is fun: Uranus really is pale and even. Neptune on the other hand on my grainy picture is blueish on top almost like the false color image, white in the middle and kind of yellowish on the bottom. He's a bit stretched out so distortion by the atmosphere surely plays a role. Thanks for there great video, always much fun to follow you!
its fascinating to me, even in the highly logical world of cosmological physics, the need to "present" a face in an attempt to instigate interest, and share knowledge. its like information make-up releasing false-color images to the public, yet it is the basis for a subsequent generation of brains to push our conception and definition of said face, which hooked our child eyes at the start
What an incredibly interesting video, you got me with this one for some reason. 'Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten', not Dead so Pink Floyd will have to do today, is there a Dead lyric that includes Neptune? Can't think of one. But on the very rare occasions I'm psychotic enough to want to listen to something other than the Dead its usually Floyd.
Childhood ruined by one scientific paper. :( Neptune was one of my favorite planets because of its blue color. And it is the setting of my story-novel.
Hey, did you know that I have a game on a platform called Roblox about space and when I realized about Neptune's true color I corrected it for everyone to see Neptune's real color? I hope that, that way, people actually get a better idea of what Neptune looks like!
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That's a poorly thought out statement, let's think about it. Photos are are often changed for advertising to catch a consumers eye but, because it's not being presented as art most people would not consider that art. Artist's often present photos that have not been changed, with accurate colors as art, people admire it, purchase it, and hang it on their walls, it's art. So your definition, by definition, is not accurate.
But images from the Hubble Space Telescope, aswell as huge groundbased telescopes like the Keck Observatory views Neptune as a deep blue, espeically when comparing it to Uranus. Why wouldn't it be seen as almost the same color as Uranus?
Not sure, maybe he will respond. Like a comment from above, I took a picture of Neptune some time back with my 8" reflector and digital camera and it was very blue. Maybe not quite as blue as voyager, but maybe sky blue.
Like with any image, you want to check the captions to see what filters were used. Both HST and Keck released false-color images as well. Alas, it's a very common practice in order to study certain phenomena, but it can leave the public confused if it's not made clear how the images were processed.
A request for clarification: you keep using the term "false color", but my understanding the original Neptune image was a true color with some color enhancements. Maybe it's a difference in meaning between different fields, but my understanding of false color images wasn't just enhancements to the image, it was actually using different wavelengths in the RGB channels to highlight phenomena that can't be seen with human eyes, e.g. using infra-red to represent temperature in a image.
It's fair to say that the "blue" image is enhanced, but in so enhancing the color changed from aqua to a deep blue, which in my mind makes it a "false" color, despite the fact that both are within the visible spectrum. But you make a good point in terms of the meaning of those words being different in different circumstances.
Unfortunately the new image does not look like Neptune either. Go to your telescope and start taking pictures of it. I agree the old picture was too blue, but the last picture isn't even close. This is a group trying to hype up something I guess. We know what Neptune looks like because we have seen it.
theres an issue with this and its that because you are using a telescope, you are likely inside earths atmosphere, which will change the colors you see because air will filter certain colors.
We have been deceived for 40 years about the color of Neptune, and for 30 years we have been deceived that Pluto is a planet. Maybe they are telling us lies about the shape of the Earth??? 😁
This ruins my image of a place so dazzling blue all day that it would be like living in an Electric Light Orchestra song and an Industrial Light and Magic special effect. I was even hoping to retire to Neptune! But it's better I find this out now than after I move there and be let down.
I think your vids are by far the best astronomy vids. But how blue is neptune, isn't one of the best. The whole point of space missions is to see how things really look. Then some plonker or plonkers (I'm being polite here) at NASA then decided to put out a false image = insane. Oh well at least no one died on this occasion
The *whole point* of Voyager was to *image* & characterize the nature of the outer planets & their moons - from the ultra violet through radio wavelengths, their magnetic fields, and other ways. This issue is about reprocessing images taken 35 years ago to more accurately - in order to better describe _Uranus._
@@nicholashylton6857lol maybe but at the end of the day they still want more money for the next year. Do you really think they care what color the public thinks a planet is? They just want to keep their jobs and keep expanding their knowledge of space.
Wrong. In the heliocentric model, you shouldn't be able to see Neptune at all. It is too far away. The lux measurement would drop below 0.1 lux long before it reached Earth. (0.1 lux is the threshold of our ability to see light.)
not really given how the background is pitch black. Also light would work the same way if planets rotated around earth or the sun. Your logic is flawed.
@@vcjg287 I am going to test your understanding of basic science. Here goes: If the radius of a sphere is doubled, by what factor does its surface area increase?
Respect for putting the TV in the direction of Neptune, a genius move!
lol, thanks :)
@@LaunchPadAstronomy
I literally just found channel today. And figuratively binged watched all your videos. (Actually, only about 13 in a row. Lol.) And I must admit, you have single-handedly rekindled the childlike an amazement I have for space, and space travel. please, I cannot wait another 6 months for you to come out with a new video. Please come out with more videos soon. I beg you. 😁😁😁
Hello Mr. Ready, I hope you're alive and well! Always enjoyed your videos!
Through my 14“ Telescope I could never see any difference in color between the two ice giants. That explains why. 👍
Jealous😂,But Same With My 6
I can't spot either ice giant from west Baltimore. So I'm even more jealous. And my telescope really sucks to boot.
Hard to "see" it through your scope. Use a camera and you will see a difference.
Thanks for showing Justin Cowart's reprocessed image! I knew I saw color-corrected Neptune years ago : ) Also thanks for digging out that original image reveal on TV.
Do you think you are seeing real colors from Jame Web?
I bet somebody mentioned but Venus as well its not sick yellow as shown here, its basically almost white and featureless to the human eye.
I was 13 when the fly-by happened.
I feel old!
13 at flyby? YOU'RE JUST A BABY! :)
@@LaunchPadAstronomy true, I guess on Neptune, I'm only about 4 months old, plenty of years left...
I feel lied to (by the news sources) all these years! I loved the rich blue...😭
You're not alone
@@NevadaMostWanted658Fully Agree
Wait till you find out that they have smaller or bigger errors in basically everything they are reporting about... They don't know what they are talking about almost all the time, leading to a horrible number of bad misconceptions spread by them to the general public.
@@PafMedic hey, i've seen you somewhere
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Hey Christian, I hope your are well. I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for all the amazing space videos. You have an able to make the concepts so relatable.
So are you ok? Been nearly a year since you uploaded anything
I just want to say your content and expertise for all of you videos is brilliant and its a real shame you don't have more subscribers. Thank you for making these videos!
One of my favorite channels of all time.. thank you, Christian, for doing what you do and making these videos so enjoyable! 😊🌎❤️🕺🏻
@LaunchPadAstronomy
I literally just found channel today. And figuratively binged watched all your videos. (Actually, only about 13 in a row. Lol.) And I must admit, you have single-handedly rekindled the childlike an amazement I have for space, and space travel. please, I cannot wait another 6 months for you to come out with a new video. Please come out with more videos soon. I beg you. 😁😁😁
P.S. I felt like I did, as a child, watching the solar system space exploration episode of The Magic School Bus.
And, though not as pretty as Miss frizzle, I must admit you are more informative. And my older age, I find that to be how much more value. Thanks again for the videos. Please don't make me wait another 6 months for another one, please! 😉😅😁
Been a while- where are you
Absolutely phenomenal videos on this channel! Hope you get back to making more at some point.
Thanks Christian, another great video that really gets to the heart of the matter. I remember reading a Discover magazine article about this subject titled "Colorizing the Cosmos" back in the 80's or 90's. Almost turned me off from Astronomy forever but I came back with a vengeance!
Also, you may be a nerd but you're our nerd. Signed, fellow nerd.
I love the story of where you were and what you were doing at the time of the flyby, really lovely vibes:)
On one hand I can understand scientist's frustration about false color images becoming so widespread in media, but on the other... _Pretty colors are pretty_
The Grateful Dead in the background always makes me happy
Cheers for the vids. Great job and respect to your knowledge 👍👍👍
Please make more videos! ❤
Curse those meddling astronomers who have corrected the images I've had in my mind for 35 years! My childhood was a lie! 😅
While it's a bit disappointing, the data returned is no less astounding.
My mind was blown when the raw B&W images of Triton came in. "Cryovolcanos"? Whoa! And when the Voyager imaging team put together that animation showing that they were active *right now,* my jaw hit the floor!
LOL! Yeah, what can I say, I like reality..most of the time :) Triton is amazing!
It's good to see this correction coming to light!
I am new to University and I’m amazed people even get funding to do such research.
As it is pretty much a rich persons hobby. Just doing some exploration for fun.
I don’t think I’ll ever get funding for a paper, it feels wrong and the funders will no doubt want a certain result that I then have to produce for them.
HEY BUDDY ! WHATS GOING ON ??? 6 MONTHS WITHOUT ANYTHING !!!
hope professor is okay.
As an amateur astrophotographer, I totally get this.
This is far more distressing than Pluto's reclassification
In person I imagine it'd appear much darker just because of reduced sunlight.
Thank you very much to information I am very grateful for you from middle east
No new videos for four long months?
I hope everything is fine on your side.
Thank you Christian. 🌌
It's still deep blue in our hearts.
Where did he go?
I remember them saying at the time. This is a false colour image to highlight the cloud formations! If only thay asked me. I would have sorted it out!😂
I’m heavy into late stage stellar evolution
There he is!
I took pictures of both planets with my little 6''-Smith-Cassigrain telescope and my daily Canon dslr in an extremely clear night (which is rare here in Switzerland). Going back to these images is fun: Uranus really is pale and even. Neptune on the other hand on my grainy picture is blueish on top almost like the false color image, white in the middle and kind of yellowish on the bottom. He's a bit stretched out so distortion by the atmosphere surely plays a role. Thanks for there great video, always much fun to follow you!
Almost looks like one of my old bowling balls LOL.
No wonder I couldn't find it when I traveled the universe.
It should be mandatory that unprocessed images be displayed in addition to the processed. 😳
Never heard of the planet Evertaken, but I'm glad they got a sharp view of it.
Clever :)
Neptune is my 2nd favorite planet :)
Earth is mine
Thank You!!!!!
its fascinating to me, even in the highly logical world of cosmological physics, the need to "present" a face in an attempt to instigate interest, and share knowledge. its like information make-up releasing false-color images to the public, yet it is the basis for a subsequent generation of brains to push our conception and definition of said face, which hooked our child eyes at the start
i wish we could send another probe to Neptune and Uranus as well
What an incredibly interesting video, you got me with this one for some reason. 'Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten', not Dead so Pink Floyd will have to do today, is there a Dead lyric that includes Neptune? Can't think of one. But on the very rare occasions I'm psychotic enough to want to listen to something other than the Dead its usually Floyd.
yeah i've actually been portaying Neptune (and every other planet) in its true color ever since i found out about it
Very interesting stuff man. Well done.
Thanks!
Thanks.
Why no more new videos? Hope you are okay
Childhood ruined by one scientific paper. :(
Neptune was one of my favorite planets because of its blue color. And it is the setting of my story-novel.
We should take this up with the IAU and get them to officially say, "Neptune is officially *Azure blue,* not Robin's egg blue." 😁😉
Hey, did you know that I have a game on a platform called Roblox about space and when I realized about Neptune's true color I corrected it for everyone to see Neptune's real color? I hope that, that way, people actually get a better idea of what Neptune looks like!
Amazing. Next they’ll say Plutos not a planet.
Umm...
It’s a planet.
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Why Are You Talking Like This?
@@StefanCreates Like What
@@PafMedic Every Word Capitalized
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By definition if single bit of one byte of a photograph is changed it becomes art.
That's a poorly thought out statement, let's think about it. Photos are are often changed for advertising to catch a consumers eye but, because it's not being presented as art most people would not consider that art. Artist's often present photos that have not been changed, with accurate colors as art, people admire it, purchase it, and hang it on their walls, it's art. So your definition, by definition, is not accurate.
That is patently false.
NASA should start new mission to spray blue food coloring on Neptune
I will never mentally recover from this
I just assumed they went with the bluer color because of Neptune's namesake.
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A good amateur telescope image I've seen made it look almost like a purple sphere.
I also didn't know Jupiter was just boring grey
Aqua green. No shade of blue to my 3 color filter.
Pluto is not a planet. Fine.
Neptune isn’t an oceanic blue. Double Fine.
Jupiter’s core is fuzzy instead of rocky. I hate you, Juno!
Yeah why would neptune have a more lively atmosphere?
Neptune turned out to have a very active internal source of heat. Exactly what is causing that heat remains an unanswered question, however.
@@LaunchPadAstronomy oh I see... could be radioactive decay?
Perhaps, as well as gravitational contraction. The problem is that we've only had that one close-up look. We need to go back!
Miss your content! I'd rather watch you than a "space journalist".
But images from the Hubble Space Telescope, aswell as huge groundbased telescopes like the Keck Observatory views Neptune as a deep blue, espeically when comparing it to Uranus. Why wouldn't it be seen as almost the same color as Uranus?
Not sure, maybe he will respond. Like a comment from above, I took a picture of Neptune some time back with my 8" reflector and digital camera and it was very blue. Maybe not quite as blue as voyager, but maybe sky blue.
Like with any image, you want to check the captions to see what filters were used. Both HST and Keck released false-color images as well. Alas, it's a very common practice in order to study certain phenomena, but it can leave the public confused if it's not made clear how the images were processed.
So, why the hubble images were also similar in color? They never bothered to clarify even the hubble image colors 😥
Never been a fan of the coloured images. Don’t need my world painted thx. Nature is beautiful and amazing just the way it is.
Another question arises: Are Triton’s colors true, or also enhanced?
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A request for clarification: you keep using the term "false color", but my understanding the original Neptune image was a true color with some color enhancements. Maybe it's a difference in meaning between different fields, but my understanding of false color images wasn't just enhancements to the image, it was actually using different wavelengths in the RGB channels to highlight phenomena that can't be seen with human eyes, e.g. using infra-red to represent temperature in a image.
It's fair to say that the "blue" image is enhanced, but in so enhancing the color changed from aqua to a deep blue, which in my mind makes it a "false" color, despite the fact that both are within the visible spectrum. But you make a good point in terms of the meaning of those words being different in different circumstances.
this is one of the most disappointing things i have ever learned.
Lol
from now on just put a watermark across all the false color adjusted images saying they are not the correct colors. solved
It's not just Neptune. Most images released to the public are false color. They are out for clicks as well.
this is like taking a pic of yourslef with an instagram filter on and then claiming you dont exist because it got a filter on
I feel so betrayed..
Party-pooper!!
Unfortunately the new image does not look like Neptune either. Go to your telescope and start taking pictures of it. I agree the old picture was too blue, but the last picture isn't even close. This is a group trying to hype up something I guess.
We know what Neptune looks like because we have seen it.
theres an issue with this and its that because you are using a telescope, you are likely inside earths atmosphere, which will change the colors you see because air will filter certain colors.
I am disappointed! Bring back blue Neptune!!!
Man, it feels like yelling at the mic is some sort of underground youtube thing.🔊🔉🔊🔉👂👂.
Yelling?
???
Yeah but I think it just works better compositionally with the deep blue. I could’ve done such a better job smh
University of Oxford and Oxford University aren't the same thing.
According to my colleague who went to Oxford, it is :)
Sorry, I got confused between University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University! You are correct.
Your such a nerd 👍
We have been deceived for 40 years about the color of Neptune, and for 30 years we have been deceived that Pluto is a planet. Maybe they are telling us lies about the shape of the Earth??? 😁
This ruins my image of a place so dazzling blue all day that it would be like living in an Electric Light Orchestra song and an Industrial Light and Magic special effect. I was even hoping to retire to Neptune! But it's better I find this out now than after I move there and be let down.
I think your vids are by far the best astronomy vids.
But how blue is neptune, isn't one of the best.
The whole point of space missions is to see how things really look. Then some plonker or plonkers (I'm being polite here) at NASA then decided to put out a false image = insane.
Oh well at least no one died on this occasion
Very strange take. If one can't be bothered to read the caption I guess they aren't really all that interested in the first place, so who cares?
They want to keep public interest up and their budget.
The *whole point* of Voyager was to *image* & characterize the nature of the outer planets & their moons - from the ultra violet through radio wavelengths, their magnetic fields, and other ways.
This issue is about reprocessing images taken 35 years ago to more accurately - in order to better describe _Uranus._
@@nicholashylton6857lol maybe but at the end of the day they still want more money for the next year. Do you really think they care what color the public thinks a planet is? They just want to keep their jobs and keep expanding their knowledge of space.
Wrong. In the heliocentric model, you shouldn't be able to see Neptune at all. It is too far away. The lux measurement would drop below 0.1 lux long before it reached Earth. (0.1 lux is the threshold of our ability to see light.)
not really given how the background is pitch black. Also light would work the same way if planets rotated around earth or the sun. Your logic is flawed.
@@vcjg287 I am going to test your understanding of basic science. Here goes: If the radius of a sphere is doubled, by what factor does its surface area increase?
wait, nasa produces false images? noooooooooo wayyyyyyyy. nasa would never fool us (hmhm moon landing, the blue marble)
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So what, making a big deal about nothing IMO.
Objectively, yes. But the image has been burned into the public consciousness (for those of us who care about these things, anyway) for 35 years.