Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 6530

NGC 6530

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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

Support as nominator – TheFreeWorld (talk) 11:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ (not yet eligible to vote, per FPC rules) - Aviafanboi (talk) 11:30, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – --Janke | Talk 15:40, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Vinícius O. (talk) 17:17, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:50, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum. 11:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 13:05, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
comment Very high on false colours and not a very good illustration of what NGC 6530 is. What are we trying to show here?©Geni (talk) 23:58, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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]