Comment on Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not ExistparentComments−gaius15yBecause when you assign a visible colour to a particular invisible wavelength, you can choose whatever colour you like. If you went there and looked with the naked eye, you'd see just black.−mcantor15yExactly. Since when is space less awesome than we think it is?−InclinedPlane15yYou wouldn't just see black, you'd see a different set of colors, generally more muted than the false-color pictures from telescopes.
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Because when you assign a visible colour to a particular invisible wavelength, you can choose whatever colour you like. If you went there and looked with the naked eye, you'd see just black.
Exactly. Since when is space less awesome than we think it is?
You wouldn't just see black, you'd see a different set of colors, generally more muted than the false-color pictures from telescopes.