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False-Color Image
An image in which colors are assigned to represent specific wavelengths of light—often outside the visible range—to highlight physical processes or chemical compositions in astronomical objects.
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APODs including "False-Color Image"
IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
27/04/2025
Saturn's Northern Hexagon
18/06/2023
Recycling Cassiopeia A
01/06/2023
The Galactic Center in Infrared
19/04/2021
Recycling Cassiopeia A
23/01/2021
Saturn's Northern Hexagon
05/07/2020
Recycling Cassiopeia A
06/09/2019
The Crab from Space
17/03/2018
IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
11/06/2017
Mystery Feature Now Disappears in Titan Lake
07/03/2016
Stars at the Galactic Center
08/03/2015
Saturn's Swirling Cloudscape
06/08/2014
M51: X-Rays from the Whirlpool
10/06/2014
Equinox and the Iron Sun
23/09/2010
The Not So Quiet Sun
06/08/2010
Messier 76
23/07/2010
Jupiter from the Stratosphere
03/06/2010
IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula
11/04/2010
Stars at the Galactic Center
14/06/2009
The Dumbbells
17/12/2008
Generations of Stars in W5
29/08/2008
Fermi's First Light
28/08/2008
Layers in Aureum Chaos
04/04/2008
The NGC 3576 Nebula
26/03/2008
Sculpting the South Pillar
13/03/2008
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132
13/02/2008
Enceladus Ice Geysers
13/10/2007
Planetary Nebula NGC 2440
15/02/2007
Stars of the Galactic Center
10/02/2007
Composite Crab
26/10/2006