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Astronomers almost exclusively look at grayscale images (sometimes with an applied colormap, but the underlying data is still just a single channel) when doing actual work.

There are some rare cases in which an audible might look at a color image, but the overwhelming majority of images astronomers deal with daily are grayscale.



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