Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist

Re:Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist by gaius on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:40AM (#1786112)

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.

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Re:Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist by mcantor on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:55AM (#1786137)

Exactly. Since when is space less awesome than we think it is?

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Re:Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist by InclinedPlane on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @04:31AM (#1786532)

You 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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