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Text File  |  1995-11-04  |  434b  |  15 lines
  1. false color: Since so many
  2. wavelengths of light are invisible to
  3. human eyes, astronomers often create
  4. images of celestial objects that use
  5. ΓÇ£falseΓÇ¥ colors to represent types of
  6. light that could not otherwise be
  7. seen. Typically, each color represents
  8. a different wavelength or different
  9. intensity of electromagnetic radiation.
  10. False color imaging may also be used
  11. to enhance certain details of visible
  12. light images.
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