On: Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy

[BurningFrog]

The Webb pics would be invisible to humans without enhancing the colors.

Though most things probably look pretty similar in visible light.

[simonh → BurningFrog]

The main problem with visible light is it's absorbed and scattered by dust. It's Webb's ability to see through all that dust in the IR spectrum that reveals a huge amount of information and images Hubble and our eyes would never be able to see.