I wasn't talking religion though. I'm just pissed that all the Webb photos are essentially "doctored" to supply these extravagant colors that absolutely do not exist on the actual objects themselves. I understand that without doing that they would all just be gray and black. That's fine - give me gray and black. I'd much rather see that then some fanciful BS designed to make people go oooohhh and ahhhh.
I guess you don't realize that what we see as colors in these images are actually representing chemical data. Since humans can only physically observe a small amount of frequences, this allows us to "see" stars and nebulas in another way. It's not just "made up"
No offense, but if I could snap my fingers and stand before one of these objects - If I wouldn't see the colors represented in these photos then they ARE made up. There are only two options: the colors are there in real life or they are not. Anything else is justification. If astronomers need the added color to further thier work, that's understandable. Then they alone should have access to the colored pictures. When the colors are issued to the public, I'm sorry - that is misleading and smacks of advertising for future funding.
there's nothing misleading about these images. I'm not a scientist and no one special and I know what they mean. And science is ALL about finding information, data, and so on.
While human eyes are limited to seeing colors from red to violet, snakes can see beyond red (infrared). If you face a snake, open your mouth and raise your arms (shirtless) it would see your eyes, mouth and armpits as a different color than other parts of your body. Colors are just different frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. NASA has a telescope recording the sun in four ultraviolet frequencies. A section of image at 195 angstroms (1.5 million degrees Kelvin) has a color just as real as your shirt at 5171 angstroms which you would call green.
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