No, colors as displayed are NEVER the actual colors. It's all
someone's interpretation.

Who's eye is used for the standard?

Yes optical telescopes made those images. Color filters are used to
separate each major color. The data is collected some way and a full
color image is recreated.

Does your color imaging correspond to those color filters' pass-bands?

This makes it very difficult to recreate any color images. Careful
attempts have been made, but it's all a crap shoot!

Very pretty pictures though!

Saul Levy


On Tue, 27 May 2008 06:20:57 -0700, Tom Impelluso
wrote:

Hello all,

May I ask a question?
Here are some spectacular pictures of stellar explosions...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/popup?id=4919415

I have always wanted to ask this... so...
Are these colors real?
Were the images made with an optical telescope?
Or are they some sort of grey xray images in which colors have been scaled
or interpreted?

thanks