Tuesday, June 27, 2006

How Do Space Pictures Get So Pretty? Photoshop, of course.

Here's how it works: Telescopes take black-and-white pictures using different filters to capture particular wavelengths of light. Then these pictures are sent back to Earth via the Deep Space Network, a set of large antennae set up around the world.the image files can be up to 70MB in size, with a resolution of 16.7 megapixels. read on for more...

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