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false color
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false color [¦fȯls ¦kəl·ər]
(optics)
Color assigned to frequency bands that are normally invisible to the human eye (such as infrared radiation) in an image in order to enhance contrasts or to display those colors.


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The planetwide portrait is a false-color composite of visible-light and near-infrared images.
A false-color VLA radio image shows jets of plasma, a mixture of electrons and atomic nuclei, in Galaxy IC 708.
The striking array of photographs includes Earth-based observatory images, computer-enhanced false-color pictures, and a Galileo spacecraft image.
 
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