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False Color
A method of representing data where colors are assigned to specific ranges of values, often used in astronomical imaging to visualize wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.
Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov
APODs including "False Color"
A Long Storm System on Saturn
05/10/2025
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Video
06/05/2025
Seeing Titan
31/03/2023
Our Increasingly Active Sun
22/02/2023
Herschel Crater on Mimas
13/08/2022
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Video
16/04/2021
Enceladus in Infrared
24/09/2020
Seeing Titan
20/08/2020
A Long Storm System on Saturn
15/09/2019
Spitzer's Orion
31/08/2019
Perseverance Valley Panorama
14/03/2019
Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon
28/10/2018
Seeing Titan
18/08/2018
Shell Game in the LMC
29/12/2016
Fermi's Gamma-ray Moon
29/04/2016
The Brightest Spot on Ceres
11/12/2015
X-ray Echoes from Circinus X-1
05/08/2015
NGC 2440: Pearl of a New White Dwarf
17/05/2015
Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko in Crescent
29/04/2015
MAVEN at Mars
26/09/2014
No X-rays from SN 2014J
16/08/2014
Orange Sun Sparking
06/05/2014
IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula
22/08/2013
Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters
30/06/2013
Blue Sun Bursting
20/05/2013
Saturn Hurricane
02/05/2013
A Raging Storm System on Saturn
28/04/2013
Herschel's Andromeda
02/02/2013
Cas A: Optical and X-ray
17/01/2013
The Orion Bullets
10/01/2013