The Solar System is Beige
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Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of what the planets look like. From brilliantly blue Neptune to the "red planet" Mars. But if you managed to actually visit these worlds, you'd find reality... a little beige.
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lol did you guys forget to give the link until now? or was it just in the description
Ok.
So at least Earth is the pretty sibling.
A delicate little bird in a sea of raw unfathomable destructive violence.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259 and indulges in the occasional bout of ultra-violence itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event\
More like a little bird in a quiet, empty desert
Yup. In terms of natural color variation and contrast, nothing comes close to Earth. Jupiter's moon Io is a close second. Everything else in the solar system is pretty bland in comparison. Ok, Iapetus has its dark and bright hemispheres, but it's pretty much just black & white.
For now... Seriously though, I'd love to see how the planets have changed over time and the projections for how they'll look in the future. (Like when the Sun expands and the gas giants and ice giants start to warm up)
It makes sense that the earth is the planet that shows the most contrast to our eyes because our eyes are designed to see contrasts on earth.
Especially green, our eyes and brains are VERY good at telling apart different shades of green.
Great point!
Evolved. Not designed. But I get your meaning. Good point.
I thought jupiter was about as vibrant as Earth, from.a distance. The true colour image was still amazing.
@@CoughSyrup evolution is design but it’s not preconceived
"There's one planet that looks as vibrant as you think it does, you're standing on it." Hit's really hard, it truly humbles and awes me on a whole different level now.
Absolutely! Thank you for stating this. Super resonant.
Hm.
It would be cool to see the enhanced version that got planet tuned for solar system gram.
I'm not standing on it, I'm lying on it
@@noachav Me too.
Fun fact, it was clearly stated when the images of Neptune were release, all those years ago, that those were enhanced to be able to better display the variations in Neptune's atmosphere, but somehow over the years that information kinda got forgotten and people kept reproducing Neptune with those colors as if it's the planet's true colors, and sometimes even explaining why it looks so different from Uranus, but those were never meant to be taken as Neptune's true colors lol
It's still really pretty, tho! I like that shade of blue, pale as it may be!
@@FloraGaleFlower sure but i bet the director of Ad Astra is pretty pissed right about now lol
As in most things, details get lost.
And my anus isn't light blue! (Unlike what she said.) Wait -- oh, I get it. She said "it's much closer to Uranus in color." Sorry, my bad.
Comes to show that information that is wildly accepted isn't always real...
We're all living in a sad beige mom's house
Mother has a nice house
🎉
Beige can be fun; lets not paint it all with one brush.
i actually had to google it, that expression is a whole meme from two years ago?
Hey! She's pulling it off. The TikTok beige moms could never. Besides, she uses lots of green and blue and we're allowed to decorate our personal space however we want.
Y'know, Venus being shown as a off-white ball is actually *_a lot more representative_* of what it actually is, since it is visible evidence of the runaway greenhouse effect that happened there and made it the hottest planet in the solar system. Similarly, Neptune having the same white blue color as Uranus is also more representative of what it actually is: a freezing hyper-density of gas above a pressure-cooked sea of liquids, all in one giant package.
I get the suspicion that Venus would also be blindingly bright up close, almost impossible to look at without protection
Interesting related fact, in ancient China, Venus was referred to as the Great White Golden Star 太白金星
Yeah.
To sum up, Neptune is just a pale copy of Uranus.
lots of things are
Myanus is not that color.
i mean...
Fun fact, apart from planet Earth, Uranus is the only one named after a Greek god. All others have been named after Roman gods.
Hahahaha it never gets old 😂
One issue that is often overlooked is that our brain does have automatic white balance much like digital cameras and who knows how that would react to seeing those planets first hand. There is a chance they might seem more vibrant or blander than we think, also they would likely look way different from orbit and from the surface. One neat experiment is wearing red blue 3d glasses for a while (30min should be enough), removing them while looking at a wall and alternativelly closing one eye. The wall will have a tint opposite of the filter that that eye was wearing.
Hey, so much cool info shared in an interesting way. Thanks!
The thing that bugs me is when a sci-fi movie/medium depicts nebulas. Nebulas don't look like the false color images from Hubble or JWST. You wouldn't even be able to tell that you were in a nebula. Empty space averages around 100-ish particles per cubed meter, while a nebula can vary from 100 - 10,000 [edit] particles per cubed meter. It would look no different than empty space.
False color representations of everything seems much more useful like Predator vision. The only reason we don't have that at the consumer level (yet) is due to technology and cost. The future is augmented.
To be fair, nobody wants to see boring empty space. They want to see colorful nebulas. I honestly, _genuinely_ see no reason why people wouldn't use augmented reality to enhance their view of space the same way. It's the same reason you'd simulate sound to describe your environment if you were on a ship. Your senses work better when they're stimulated.
Some would have a slight tint. But good luck telling. But other than some extra wear on the armor/shielding.
@@dangerfly I want my DBZ scouter, dammit.
Interesting, I did not know this and where maybe it looks cool, I’m sick and tired of being lied to about almost everything! At least they should do what KZhead does constantly and put asterisk and note next to each image explaining this is not what you would ever see with the naked eye.
No wonder though the cost of colour ink in this economy
You always out of magenta and cyan too?
I’m too bothered you missed the opportunity to say astronomical
this comment had me dead I heard it in Zoidberg's voice
We’re conditioned to see the world around us as blue & green & yellow and the interesting stuff as red. But the reality is that we evolved under fairly specific environmental conditions with very specific historical biomechanics.
Green is at the centre of human visual spectrum. Blue and green and blends are used in advertising for stuff like packging of sleeping aid meds. Cornflake packs are red and yellow for a reason. 😂
Which also explains the differences between men, women and the various races on earth and the many enviroments they adapted to.
@@TheStygian It does? And there is only one race of humans.
@@TheStygian elaborate?
i’m farting
Dan Avidan once called Beige "The coolest shade of brown"
And brown is just dark orange
You know he's trustworthy. He dug out the qumran caves
@@ShotgunLlamaDan's caves.
What a random ass Dan Avidan comment. Lmao.
Like…. In cool 😎 or cool 🧊?
Werner Herzog must be thrilled.
IYKYK 😅
Lindybeige too
Serious burn man. Thankfully the Crimean Valley of the Shadow of Death isn't in orbit.
@@DrewNorthup Totally thought that was some kind of starship before I googled it. Thank you for that journey! lol
I was hoping this would have a voiceover
It's worth noting that for most planets we don't have to guess at what it looks like based on what we recorded with digital imaging sensors. You can just point a regular old visual telescope at Jupiter for instance and have a good look at its true colors. And yes, it looks exactly like the image at 6:25, maybe a bit less saturated (who knows, it's not like our monitors are perfect either). You won't get as much detail as that image, but on a good night with half decent gear you can see the bands and storms clearly. An average telescope works great, no need to spend thousands of dollars. Past Jupiter you probably need somewhat nicer gear, and past Saturn I kinda doubt you're gonna see anything more than a colored dot. Uranus and Neptune look pretty much the same through my telescope.
I was wondering why she didn't mention the use of an amateur telescope. Instead she said it was unlikely that you or she would see the planets (without going through digital processing of the image).
Maybe the colours we see from Earth are different than ones we would see closer to the planets because of the wavelenth distorsion up until getting here?
@@Let_Toons And Earth's atmosphere, can't forget that.
@@Let_ToonsThat is a fantastic question! We definitely will see different colors...for certain definitions of "different". The photons emitted from the source most definitely change as they travel to us. There is the redshift caused by the expansion of the universe, there's the redshift caused by gravity. There's also a Doppler shift caused by the relative motion of the bodies. If a planet is moving toward us, its light will be blueshifted. If it's moving away, it will be redshifted. But the boring answer is, all of these things add up to so little you couldn't measure it for anything except the Sun. It's so big you can measure its gravitational redshift, but nothing else is heavy enough, or far enough away, or moving fast enough, for us to measure the difference in its light and the expected light. We're talking about the difference between 500.0 and 500.0000001. It's technically different, but not in any way you could perceive.
There is a certain logical sense to Earth being more colorful than anything else. Our eyes evolved to parse light data filtered through Earth's atmosphere. If there were 1960s-style aliens living on Jupiter or something they'd probably think Earth looks dull.
It's still unique though. Most other planets are just some shades of brown or light blue. Earth is the only dark blue and green planet
As an aspiring computer programmer, who’s just done work with climate scientists on ice core visualization. This is so interesting cause it’s literally part of my code! Ice cores are taken using hyperspectral imaging cameras and have a whole bunch of wavelengths, so for an Rgb visualization I have to choose 3 wavelengths of data to show off as an rgb image…… literally what nasa did
I want to see educational ice-core placemats to set next to the solar system ones! Just label the epoch or label what condition caused the variations. Next generation of kids thinking that the ice ages and other phenomena are so beautiful and varied, and the human influence of pollution is so drab in comparison...
An aquamarine coloured planet is a pretty as a sapphire blue coloured one to me. It's amazing they are there at all!
The aquamarine colored planet would be Uranus. Neptune is even paler than that.
4:20 can we just acknowledge how amazing it is that we have managed to send probes that took actual photos of the surface of venus, the planet which, among the rocky planets, has without a doubt the hardest surface to access much less send any information back through that thick atmosphere
Mars does look red with the naked eye from earth though
I'm going to guess that that is due to our atmosphere altering the wavelength.
@@alfredthegreat9543It’s Mars’ atmosphere iirc. It has something( iron oxide I imagine) that that blows up in dust storms. The horizon would look reddish to our eyes but most of the ground is brown.
To the naked eye Mars looks more yellow than red. But maybe that’s due to light pollution?
@@kellydalstok8900 I agree, like a light orange to me. But most people I know call orange red where red and orange are very and totally different colours to me but most people call both the same thing I have noticed. What a lot of people call red, I'd call crimson or burgundy.
I'd personally go with orange instead of red.
I think it's important to understand that color choice in astronomical images usually isn't to make a picture look the most accurate or the most beautiful, it's usually to show the most detail. Sometimes the colors are chosen to pick out specific details in a certain wavelength, or just to highlight certain features of an object. Most nebulae for instance would probably be a reddish brown to our eyes, or maybe blue and black. Even if you invented an FTL drive and managed to zip over to one, it would still look fairly dull. Still beautiful, in my opinion, but not very vibrant. One of the few that actually does show color is the orion nebula, which is also very close and very bright. It may be the brightest nebula in the sky, you can even see it faintly in the suburbs on a clear night.
In our eyes, red cones actually have some secondary sensitivity to violet light as well as red, which is why a violet laser looks purple even though the laser emits no red light. If it was just the blue cones, violet lasers would just be a dim blue.
I like to refer to it as “modern”
It's modern because no pluto
I like to refer to it as “Early 2010s FPS”
It's clearly post-modern😂
Human perceptions evolved locally here on Earth and are best suited for life on the ground. It is not reasonable to expect that we should perceive planetary bodies in such a way that fulfills our desires. Things only look they way they do because it helps us to live.
I KNEW IT!!!! Back when I was 7, I knew it. Oh, some said I was crazy, others said I just ran out of crayons, but now I feel vindicated!
Stop fighting or I'll turn this spaceship around!
Are we there yet! I want ice-cream! He hit me!
We're on a free return trajectory, mom. We're turning around anyway. 🙄
Digital cameras don't capture a perfect representation of reality but neither do our eyes. None of us have ever seen a perfect representation of reality.
dude. woah.
“There’s one planet that looks as vibrant as you think it does. You’re standing on it.” People aboard the International Space Station:
When you finally mentioned Earth, it brought a smile to my face. A truly beautiful planet
🎶 I'm beige, da ba dee da ba die 🎶
WE BEEN CATFISHED!
savannah's hosting style has improved so much! they are killing it.
"and because all words are made up.." this is my favorite thing
This is one of the topics most beloved by flat earthers. They point to these photos and say they can't possibly real because the colours change "and NASA admits it's CGI" 🤦♀️
More bad news: The *Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)* isn't a colorful mosaic of green, blue, purple, red, and yellow. It's just ... black. Pitch-black.
I never tire of the fascinating complexity of these shows. Please keep them coming! (And yes, I am a patron.)
Indeed, to our unfiltered eyes, the universe is quite a dull looking place. Years ago I had a good look at both Saturn and Jupiter through a home astronomical telescope that I purchased (a pretty big one too) and while I was awestruck viewing those two planets for the first time directly with my own eyes, visually they were almost greyscale. No vibrant colors, in fact virtually no color at all 🤷♂️
Try taking a photograph. You're getting a microsecond of photons when you look. Think how many more photons are captured by a camera with a 10-20 second exposure.
@@essaboselin5252 the point I’m trying to make is about viewing planets naturally with our own eyes. Not long time exposures using cameras. The colors are there, but we are unable to view them due to those limitations. So if one is traveling in a future spaceship to say Jupiter, what we see out of a window with our natural vision would be underwhelming and dull. Mainly due in part to Jupiter’s distance from the sun. It would still be fantastic to see such an incredible planet close up of course. It just won’t be very bright or colorful. Like what we see here on Earth due to its much closer proximity to the sun. And the natural evolution of our vision to make the most of it. Maybe if some theoretical Alien evolved around Jupiter, with the low visible light spectrum levels there. They would see it in a much better ‘light’ so to speak, than we ever could.
You can't tell me that saturn's rings didn't live up to the hype. Majestic ❤
Are you sure you're not colorblind? Jupiter and Saturn should at least have a visible orange and yellow tint.
@@funnelvortex7722 very slightly from what I remember seeing through that telescope. But still, barely. That’s why I said “almost” greyscale. And no I’m not color blind.
Color isn't a real, fixed feature of an object, anyway. It all depends on lighting, context, viewer, & etc.
I dunno, man. I've seen a few colors before. I believe in em.
@@lococomrade3488 I've seen a lot of things that turned out to not be real, tho, y'know? Like my ex's potential to be a good partner. It only looks real until you really pay attention!
@@jredmane 🤣😂🤣 I used to think Santa was real, and then my dad told me I was Jewish. 🥲
Actually, quantum chromodynamics has proven that colour is quantized. When electrons jump orbitals, they release very specific energies. A quark can be either red, green, or blue. An antiquark can be cyan, magenta, or yellow.
Quick! Someone tell LindyBeige!
BEIGE!!!!
Came here for this comment.
Neptune is at least visibly blue to those who look at it with a telescope. Not the deep blue the false color images show but definitely more blue than Uranus.
Yep, I'd say Uranus is like a teal colour where Neptune is more like a aqua blue.
I'd say Neptune's color is about a very washed-out cornflower while Uranus is more of a washed-out cyan.
It reminded me of the Scishow Space!
I was just about to ask if the photos of Earth were also extra vivid and then Savannah answered! Thanks, dude!!!
I miss SciShow Space bring it back
Peanut Butter brown sounds happier than beige..
@ConontheBinarian Well, I can live with that...anything is better than Pantone 448 C 😄
I don’t even see the same colours from both eyes lol.
Love the thumbnails lately
A relatively inexpensive tabletop Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope will give views of the planets good enough to provide a more human understanding of their colour. Definitely beige-shifted
Thank you for presenting scishow today and being a great science communicator!
So the closest thing to the Solar System in terms of look is Mexico
Bravo Vince!
After being obsessed with Mars as a kid, and learning much more about all the other bodies of the solar system, my favorite shifted to be Uranus. No, not because of the name or jokes, but because it was just such an outlier to the others. It's named the Greek version of a classic god, not the Roman one like all other planets, Its rotational axis is severely tilted and more. I also just thought the image of a nearly perfectly shaded hazy green/blue planet (depending on the image) was interesting. All other planets had some features but Uranus was almost like a perfect marble, unscarred and mysterious. Then later I learned more facts about it that just added more mystery to it. It also cemented more in my head as my favorite once I figured that the vast majority of exoplanets are probably just Uranus'. perfectly featureless hazy icegiant marbles slowly drifting at odd angles at distant orbits around their stars. Almost like a default planet, which is odd to think of as a favorite but I suppose that makes it special in our system
I, too, am a fan of Uranus (the planet).
Ayy, ice giant appreciation club!
Beige-y is in the eye of the beholder. 👁️
Bee 🐝 holder 🤌
"Sad Beige Solar System For Sad Beige Planets" sounds like the hit album by rock band "The Color-Blind Astronomers." And I feel like the album title would also be a song title.
Wow, such vibrant. Much color. Space really outdid itself on the aesthetics.
Makes sense to me. Planets with no water and no plants would look like balls of dry dirt due to whatever wind erosion after billions of years.
Neptune looks like a giant pearl. Gorgeous!
"Sad Beige Solar System For Sad Beige Planets" sounds like the hit album by rock band "The Color-Blind Astronomers." I imagine the album title is also a song title.
Lindybeige will be very pleased with this news!
Pale Beige Dot
I’ve always considered space pictures as a fiction, it might be why I’ve never been as interested in physics. However, seeing the rings around Saturn through a telescope in Hawaii blew my mind!
Space pictures are like historical fiction, in that they are inspired by aspects of reality.
All planets are stunning beauties regardless of what colour they are
Mars must still be pretty red or something..it literally looks red to the naked eye in the night sky
That would be our atmosphere messing with the light reflected off of Mars.
@@dweebteambuilderjones7627 I figured it was something like that. I just always thought it was neat how red it looked just looking with the naked eye from earth. Makes it easy to pick out in the night sky
Beige is good for life. I'm very happy about beige.
I have noticed when looking through telescopes that the colours aren't quite so pronounced as they seem in the pictures, so this isnt a complete surprise to me. It doesn't make the cosmos any less extraordinary to me, either. I saw the recent eclipse, and noticed how, though I thought the colours of photos were quite accurate overall, the size and appearance of the total eclipse yielded some interesting surprises. It looked so small and distant for one! It was kind of nice to be surprised like that
Earth really is the most beautiful planet then.
Lol yeah Neptune was my fav cause of the blue, but the sky blue is still sick
At list Pluto has a preaty visible heart❤
The thumbnail 😆💯
In fact, cameras not being able to capture exactly what I'm seeing has been a pain to my budding photographic journey 😅 Still have a lot to techniques to learn
Thank you 🙏
7:52 Jokes on you. I'm not standing. I'm sitting.
This video really had it all: the micro and the macro
Dang man sometimes I forget that science is literal Magic. These videos remind me.
I’ve seen Saturn and Jupiter through a telescope and they look ever similar to the popular image of them.
For me, the cherry on top of watching this episode was getting an ad for HomeGoods, aka the Beigest Company to Ever Beige
dude as someone who is colorblind I love how you say, "for non colorblind people" cones are. I really like that. Usually I hear cones are this unless you are color blind. Makes me feel ever so slightly bad. but this makes me feel ever so slightly better. I'm not blind to colors. i see them differently. and it is fine to see this way.
A tale as old as time... *_you don't look like your profile picture!_* 😂
And this is what flat earthers are talking about when they say "NASA photoshops all their images". Actually learning something about the subject at hand resolves this misunderstanding. Too bad they are unwilling to do so.
I've seen Jupiter and Saturn with my own eyes, through a telescope, and they definitely look like the official images. Majestic.
I’m not sure I’ve ever run into a music service algorithm that’s even come close to accurately predicting which original Game Boy soundtrack I wanted to listen to next.
The solar system being beige works for Saturn and Jupiter, but it’s hard to think of the ice giants and mars as beige imo
i think this has only been explained poorly to me before because hearing about false colors is actully super cool. it gives us a way to view light that we cannot see even if its all a construct. but a construct that lets us experience something that otherwise would have been impossible is worth the construct and the “lies”
I don't get to watch every SciShow video. But I hope everyone (including Savannah) sees the feedback that Savannah is great and they're doing a great job.
“Neptune is a lot closer to Uranus in color” How would you know?? lol I’ll see myself out
As a print-maker who works with opaque and translucent colors I can tell you that a good light source is necessary for accuracy and any monitor will vary in color.
where can i download the image behind the beige planets thumbnail picture? without the teddy bear. i'm a woodworker and want to make that out of wood.
When I was in school I always noticed that none of the images of the planets were very consistent across any of my textbooks or science books I had at home. I eventually gave up trying to figure out what color they were
Whoever thought of thumbnail text is hilarious lol
This is where we need to send LindyBeige.
Congrats!
Interesting! Very cool!
I love earth, it never disappoints❤
This is also true for nebulae. Most nebulae photos are long exposures, meaning they're way brighter and more vibrant than what nebulae would look like. In real life, nebulae look like gray blobs, not that different from clouds on a moonless night.
I think the reinterpreted data version of Neptune is very pretty
It would be cool to see the enhanced version that got planet tuned for solar system gram. Of the earth that is.
can anyone think of gasses/suspensions that would make a planet appear slightly purple?
7:52 Tehe, no I'm not, I'm lying down procrastinating going to sleep 😜
"Neptune is a lot closer to Uranus in colour." XD XD XD
The solar system is beige and smells like gunpowder.
I've heard many a flat earther complain about these photos in this exact same way.
So when we look for life out there, we should look for not-beige, right? If it's colorful like Earth, then it probably has life, I guess.
Hmm, that's one way to think about it, I guess. But another might be that we perceive the most detail in colour ranges commonly found on Earth, allowing us to divide the range into many different 'colours', because we evolved here. Any other life out there might have a visible range that covers THEIR planet with a whole bunch of 'distinct' colours while compressing the extremes (of whatever they can see at all) more likely on other planets into their equivalents of 'reddish beige' and 'bluish grey'.
@@05Matz - Good point. We should at least probably include the ultraviolet that many insects and fishes do see here on this planet at the very least. Infrared is also useful at least for snakes, as it identifies warm blooded animals particularly. For other ranges however I'd say that radiation is too weak (sub-infrared range) or too intense and destructive (super-ultraviolet range) for it to be meaningful to life's existence.