https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/113506006623661339 coreyspowell@mastodon.social - There are many ways to use color to understand the universe. Color can represent temperature or intensity...

...or color can represent time, as in this map of 4 years of light echoes from V838 Mon, a brilliant explosion caused by the collision of a pair of massive stars.

Processing by Judy Schmidt.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/53610891236/ #space #science #photography