The Secret Behind Those Beautiful Hubble Images

Since it launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped more than a million images and changed the way we see the universe, literally. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-team-breaks-cosmic-distance-record https://hubblesite.org/science/exoplanets http://hubble.stsci.edu/reference_desk/faq/all.php.cat=light http://hubble.stsci.edu/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/ https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/mwmw/mmw_across.html http://hubble.stsci.edu/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/tool.php https://hubblesite.org/image/3862 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190220.html https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/16/2099-Image.html Images: https://hubblesite.org/image/4012/news/1-planets https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distant_galaxy_GN-z11_in_GOODS-N_image_by_HST.jpg https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic2006b/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20314 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EmissionNebula_NGC6357.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/full-electromagnetic-spectrum-information-collection-vector-illustration-diagram-gm932443826-255558895 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deep_Impact_MRI.jpg https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/35/1819-Image.html?news=true https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/the-triangulum-galaxy https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/bursts/m33.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangulum_Galaxy_(Messier_33).jpg https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/islands-in-space/ https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/03/4601-Image?page=2&filterUUID=4c394bbb-b21e-43ab-a160-2a4521d70243 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180221.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paranal_Starry_Night.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_OTA_FOVfgsyellow.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Starsinthesky.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Sees_a_Horsehead_of_a_Different_Color.jpg https://science.nasa.gov/toolkits/spacecraft-icons https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160109.html https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0320a/ https://hubblesite.org/image/3862 https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501b/ https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190220.html https://hubblesite.org/image/4505/gallery https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/16/2099-Image.html