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Original – A portion of NGC 6530 captured by Hubble Space Telescope
Reason
Articles in which this image appears
NGC 6530
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator
NASA
The NGC 6530 is within a nebula (i.e. a cloud of gas, dust and other materials). The infobox image [1] captures the visible spectrum and it does a poor job of showing the gasses and clouds. The nom image is in the infrared spectrum [2] and shows the cloudy and gaseous nature of the NGC 6530 region (albeit a small part of it). I wouldn't call it false colors because imaging the non-visible spectrum is just as important as the visible spectrum. Bammesk (talk) 14:20, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
NGCs are visual spectrum. Indeed with one exception they were all human eye discoveries rather than photographic. Meanwhile the link you provided doesn't even going as far as saying the thing is IR (the closest it gets is saying that the WFC3 can view near IR). This isn't covered in the article so it faces EV issues.©Geni (talk) 19:47, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You are right, it doesn't say infrared, it says near-infrared. As far as your point about the EV, the nom image shows the gas and clouds vividly which is relevant to the star forming nature of this region. Bammesk (talk) 01:16, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hubble NGC6530.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:24, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]