{"id":2830,"date":"2012-03-18T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2012-03-18T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:28:00","slug":"astronomical-image-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/astronomical-image-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomical Image Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><div style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer Brant Widgeon explaining . . . \" src=\"https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/ytimg.googleusercontent.com\/vi\/_P-yAkBbIV0\/hqdefault.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_w=402&#038;no_expand=1\" title=\"Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer Brant Widgeon explaining . . . \" width=\"402\" height=\"301\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer Brant Widgeon explaining . . . <\/p><\/div>It is not always made clear that astronomical images are altered or &#8220;cleaned-up&#8221; before we see them. You know the colors of gasses and dust are &#8220;adjusted&#8221; so we can more easily see different astrophysical phenomena. You might be surprised to learn everything that goes into making the celestial beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_P-yAkBbIV0&#038;feature=player_embedded#!  \">interview with an Astronomical Image Enhancement engineer, Brant Widgeon, who describes one of the lesser known phenomena that interferes with so many space photographs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusionenergyleague.org\/index.php\/blog\/article\/plasma_only_95_of_the_universe?utm_source=FEL+Feb+2012&#038;utm_campaign=FEL+Feb+2012&#038;utm_medium=email\">Thanks to Andy Freeburg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now if you ever wondered how those spectacularly colorful space images are really made &#8212; click here : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=p5c1XoL1KFs#\">Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not always made clear that astronomical images are altered or &#8220;cleaned-up&#8221; before we see them. You know the colors of gasses and dust are &#8220;adjusted&#8221; so we can more easily see different astrophysical phenomena. You might be surprised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/astronomical-image-enhancements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}