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On that note, most images taken are enhanced for scientific publication. If they don’t Cameras/detectors will linearly correlate photon intensity with pixel intensity. In reality that’s very different to how our eyes work, as we’re very bad at deciphering linear changes of intensities but instead very good at gathering information from a huge range of brightnesses.
So if you were to represent photon intensity in an image you’d see very little as to accommodate the brightest object you’d see nothing else. So there has to be some processing to make what’s detected look like what we see
jupiz
I think I know what you're getting at (or maybe read the same thing) which says that these photos you see are somehow enhanced. I thought that was just because it was very faint though, rather than false / dramatised colours.