intensity map (Solar Physics Glossary - NASA GSFC) A color-coded map of radiation intensity as a function of position. Different colors or shades represent different intensities of observed radiation.
Tzu-Ching Chang's team developed a new technique called intensity mapping that allows them to study how dark energy has influenced changes in the structure of these filaments of hydrogen over the course of billions of years, ...
These images are from a single B-band image provided by Greg Bothun, first with a typical intensity mapping and then with a high-contrast stretch about the sky level.
 See also: Infrared, Chara, Earth, Galaxy, Astronomy
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