Eli5: What are the true colors of the universe?

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I can’t understand what are the true colors of various different space photos. I know that they are colorized, but how? How human eye could see space, galaxies and everything “in person”? I can’t comprehend it

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I’ve ended up researching this way to long because I could never actually get a straight answer. Most of what you could see would be grey-ish white much like wispy a cloud in space. A lot of it wouldn’t be visible at all though. It’s like trying to see gasses in our atmosphere, or spectral waves outside the visual spectrum. They’re so spread apart we can’t really view anything.

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