—> To create the spellbinding scenes that just debuted, scientists had to process and fill these images with color.
NASA artists coloring the pics.
I’ve seen old episodes of Gunsmoke that were colorized and the never seem accurate…
Webb is an infrared telescope, so they’re mapping infrared wavelengths up to visible wavelengths (== colors) so we can see them. If we made a picture of what Webb “sees” at the actual IR frequencies, it would just be a black rectangle, since our eyes don’t see infrared.