For a while, I had a gig answering astronomy questions online. When I got "what is that bright thing I saw in the sky?" questions, I'd guess "Venus" and then go look it up, putting their location and the time and direction of the observation into Stellarium. I'd say 98% of the time that guess was right.

Six views of Saturn from the Hubble Space Telescope in different filters. While this looks like a piece of pop art, these images show Saturn in different combinations of filters, mapped to red, green, and blue colors. The planet and its rings shift hues based on how strongly the planet reflects light at different wavelengths. Each filter combination emphasizes subtle differences in cloud altitude or composition.

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Multiwavelength OPAL Saturn - NASA Science

A "Warhol-esque" array of Saturn images depict real data from multiple filters mapped onto the RGB colors perceptible to the human eye. Each filter...

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