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> Naturally using the yellow color tone it easier to call it a "blackhole picture". It looks like something in Space... Another level of fun, is that little in
by mncharity 5y ago
> Naturally using the yellow color tone it easier to call it a "blackhole picture". It looks like something in Space...
Another level of fun, is that little in space is really yellow. As blackbody radiators (most stars) don't do yellow. The "Sun is yellow" misconception (eliding "relative to a very-not-white whitepoint of blue Vega") is so common, even the ten-ish most used intro astronomy college textbooks get it wrong.
Sometimes science's motivating deterrence of getting things wrong being embarrassing, applies also to education and outreach content. As with a few good intro physics textbooks. Or a marine biologist writing a children's picture book, and being seriously concerned about getting something wrong in front of their research peers. But sometimes, not so much. The astronomy community in particular seems notably unembarrassed by aphysically-creative handling of color and visual representations in education and outreach. Perhaps because it has so little overlap with the research endeavor?