Incredible space photos

[SuperSparks]

Feast your eyes on these

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...0&viewall=true

[Train]

wow is right!

[maxximilian]

Can I be a wet blanket on this?

There is no question images like that are pleasing to the eye. But "false-color" images like those are designed to show things that an instrument can see, but not the human eye. They use the "false-color filters" to bring out details that only an instrument can see (like infrared and ultraviolet). That's fine for the most part.....more information gets into the image and the non-science public gets a breath-taking view. However, if you were in a space ship and approaching one of the galaxies up close....you wouldn't see anything like that. Certainly the colors would be muted if there at all. In the name of good science, I would like to see NASA and other organizations release raw images. or human eye approximations, right along side the enhanced ones. There's pretty.....and there's accurate. I think accuracy is taking a beating these days.

Just my two cents....