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Beauty still exists even when it can't be seen directly with a human eye.
"Representational color" is a better term than "false color". The people who made these images are not doing it for "marketing". They simply want to share the beauty of the universe with fellow humanity. Why so cynical?
M1 is the Crab Nebula. This is a different object all together.