Always wondered why space photos are always awesome

It's the work of a "public outreach team".

http://www.slate.com/id/2227828/?from=rss

The thing is too that human eyes aren't sensitive enough to pick up much color when you look at stuff through a land based telescope. Like the Orion nebula, most of the Hubble pictures you see of it are bright pink and have some greens and blues in them, but through a little 8 inch newtonian telescope on earth it is mainly grey with a little bluish tint in the center. And galaxies and stuff usually look like a little fuzzy oval.

kinda funny. I have that same picute as my desktop picture right now.

Swimsuit models, photos of the Universe, nothing is as it seems !