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rimu@piefed.social Joined: 2024-01-04

“It turns out these incredibly dense stars can produce colors nobody expected, and some of them genuinely surprised me.”

NightFantom@slrpnk.net Joined: 2023-06-08

has converted white dwarf spectra into the colors a human eye would perceive.

Okay yeah, let me convert this to other colours and then be surprised they're other colours.

For clarity: I'm not clowning on the research, just the phrasing here. The conversion of the colour map is a really good way to engage an extra part of your brain that's not active when just looking at numbers alone.

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social Joined: 2025-06-11

Ah, so it's not just a Red Dwarf plot twist.

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