Are the pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in color? Or do astronomers add color in after they are taken?

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Phillip E.
Dec 1, 2015

The Hubble only takes photographs in greyscale.

Explanation:

The Hubble uses a CCD camera which only records greyscale images.

The Hubble takes a number of different greyscale photographs at different wavelengths. Each of the photographs is coloured and then superimposed to give a full colour image. Non visible wavelengths are given an artificial visible colour.

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