[Boxsford]

Thanks for the ping. I'm just coming on board here and am wondering about the colors in these photos. Does NASA explain anything about the colors that we are seeing in these photos? I mean with these being so far away does that affect the actual coloring at all? Are these dumb questions? I am just so amazed at these colors!

[RightWhale]

Much of what we see these days from astronomy are not photos at all. They are images made from data. The data might be in the visible range or it might not. Colors are assigned to spectral values. For example if the sensor is picking up infra-red, there would be no color since infra-red is invisible. But then during data processing a shade of red might be assigned to the infra-red, or even another color, it doesn't matter. False color is the result. Those are not the real colors in most cases.