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The James Webb telescope's pictures are profoundly beautiful, but it seems that much of the spectrum captured is infrared, which by definition, is invisible to our human eyes. Are we viewing false colors, and are the photos simply doctored for lay people to ooh and ahh?

by /u/calmcast in /r/askscience

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