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
In: Planetary Science
Most of the light we can see from outer space looks monochrome, because it’s too faint to distinguish any colors in it.
As far as false color goes, [here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nStTITWNO8o) an explanation of how it works (the dazzling “Hubble palette” is at the end)
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