Right now, 340 miles above you, moving at 17,000 miles an hour, is the Hubble Space Telescope, which has produced some of the most iconic images humanity has ever seen.
When people are shown how these color photos of space are created, they're usually presented with a bunch of black and white photos that are edited together and then colorized to create that final photo.
But what most people don't realize is that even those black and white photos that make up the color photo are themselves edited.
Now, me personally, I’ve never seen what those Hubble photos look like when they come straight off the camera.
So I wanted to see what do those untouched, unaltered photos look like.
And I also wanted to answer the question, does it make these photos unrealistic?
First, I had to figure out where I could even download the raw untouched images.
Now, I know that Hubble images are available online for free for anyone to download.
Let's take, for example, one of Hubble's most famous images, the Pillars of Creation, an image that showcases just how incredibly beautiful and abstract nature can be.
It's also one of the photos that inspired me to study astronomy, and I even took a stab at photographing it myself, although I used a way smaller telescope.
