# James Webb Space Telescope general discussion thread

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> The only way you could get a true color image would be if you had three filters that corresponded to the color response of the human eye.

Assuming you define “true color” as that as perceived by the human eye / visual system.

These fabulous artificially multi-colored space photos remind me of those rainbow hued pictures one always sees of the Mandelbrot set – a well-defined set where every point on the complex plane is either in the set or it ain’t, yet they colorize the pictures in spectacular ways.

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