[jimbug]

I love these pics from Hubble but I do have a question: are these colorful images exactly what we would see if we were able to ‘look through the window’ of a spaceship or are they an interpretation, i.e, colors applied by the ‘Hubble palate’ of the various gases and solids in space?

[disndat]

“Only her hairdresser knows for sure”

[rjsimmon]

The images are "false colored" in the respect that, since we cannot see many of the gasses involved, NASA assigns a color to it.

Hubble False Color

[Resolute Conservative]

Too bad we cannot launch vehicles to repair/replace it anymore.

[SunkenCiv]

Because these images have to be brightened up — that used to be accomplished via time exposure, along with some analog photo processing — the colors are, except where noted, exactly the ones seen, but these images are enhanced to make the colors pop a bit.