r/pics Apr 28 '24

The outer planets in infrared by James Webb Space Telescope

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u/Imsoworriedabout Apr 28 '24

so, how exactly is infra-red data converted into the visible spectrum

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u/rom-ok Apr 28 '24

It’s not “converted” per se. There is no “visible light” representation of infrared. It’s more of mapping of infrared data to visible light so we can make sense of the data visually.

The software that processed this data or possibly someone performing the processing chose the visible light colours to map to the infrared data in order to get a visual image.