Space Color Palette

Space is beautiful. No matter if you’re looking at an image of the solar system, a nebula or a galaxy… it is often quite a breathtaking sight. Now, we all know that most of the images we can see online are not real, as-you’d-see it-with-your-own-eyes images. They are reprocessed, touched up and edited so that we can actually distinguish the different nuances colors, contrast and give theses images a little bit of life. 

If you were to look at an image of a galaxy unedited, you’d probably just see a picture of a big luminous swirling disc with not much appealing. But with a little edit here and there, you can now distinguish gigantic waves of dust clouds, you can see how the light coming off bright stars is lighting the scene up… You can see the difference between hydrogen and other primal elements of the cosmos. 

We’ve decided to have a look at some of the most famous space images and decipher the 5 main colors that make up their (space) palette. We used the color palette generator from Canva for this.

And yes… this is how we like to have fun at StarLust.✨