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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Also think about what you see in the night sky. Arcturus is a red giant and appears orangish to the naked eye. Spica is a bluish-white star. Mars looks rusty in a telescope. The human eye is capable of seeing the color of stellar objects in certain situations.

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