Stop Complaining about 'Fake' Colors in NASA Images

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at the COSI science center. Instead of just sitting back, relaxing and enjoying the light show the universe is putting on, some people feel compelled to object: But those colors are fake! You wouldn't see that nebula with your eyes! Binoculars and telescopes wouldn't reveal that supernova structure! Nothing in the universe is that shade of purple! And so on. I think it's first important to describe what a teles