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ELI5: I understand that color is added to NASA photos, and why, but why can't the telescopes take true-color images? Are we just not there yet?
gpt
They can, but true color isn't always as useful or interesting. A lot of colors would be varying shades of grey and maybe some slight color changes towards red or blue, but nothing like what you see in the ones adjusted to show chemical composition. We can take pictures of our own solar system's planets in true color because there are things to see, but stars will be much more similar to each other.