I spent YEARS being sad and disappointed that the deep space photos colours were "fake", like a child that just found out there is no santa. Until someone poin

I spent YEARS being sad and disappointed that the deep space photos colours were "fake", like a child that just found out there is no santa. Until someone pointed out to me exactly what you said. Light is just a specific range on a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So are Gamma rays, X-rays, Ultraviolet, and Infrared. It just so happens that our biological eyes interpret one very (frankly narrow) range of those wavelengths as colour. But on an inter-gallactic scale, why should the biological quirk of one random primate on a random single planet matter when it comes to representing the full grandure of a celestial object that is light years in size. The data is real - it's data we received about this image. It arrived to our telescopes, and we stored it. And now we're trying to present the awesome range of everything we captured to our silly little primate eyes.