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Hubble Takes Portrait of Nebula
- RikNieu 6y agoMy Insta feed is pretty much only nebula and galaxies. I find them extraordinary beautiful and calming
- Larrikin 6y agoI find them amazing to look at as desktop backgrounds, but it seems hard to find actual high quality images that are suitable for 4k monitors. I save all the ones I do find but usually they're low quality images optimized for mobile.
- tzfld 6y agoThe reality is that most of the photos are heavily manipulated and filtered. They are far from natural.
- bennysonething 6y agoI actually only signed up to insta two weeks ago. In an attempt to keep up with some long lost friends. What are you scribed to that provides these?
- airstrike 6y ago@cosmic_background is ridiculously talented
- jfk13 6y agoSounds like you might enjoy Astronomy Picture of the Day. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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- mosselman 6y agoWhat is the difference between a portrait of a nebula and a photograph of a nebula? One difference could be that a portrait could also refer to a painting, but I doubt there is some painter module attached to Hubble, knowing it is essentially a big camera in space, what makes this a portrait? 'Portrait' also leaves room for this being an artistic render, but I also doubt that somehow. My question is more about: why use the word 'portrait' when it leaves so much room for interpretation. Is it about humanising nebulae?
- jjbinx007 6y agoMy guess is the orientation of the nebula itself in the photograph.
- hulitu 6y agoA picture is taken, a portrait is drawn. Maybe the lenses are broken and now Hubble makes portraits using AI and ML because it's cooler. Or maybe is just press exagerration.
- user-the-name 6y agoThis is definitely not correct. Many photographs are portraits.
- simonh 6y agoWhat distinguishes a portrait is that it is a representation of a single subject. Personally I would add a corollary that there is generally an expectation of some artistic merit or high fidelity, so I think there's a subjective element to the appropriateness of the term. The OED has: 1.1 A representation or impression of someone or something in language or on film or television. ‘the writer builds up a fascinating portrait of a community’