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by HPsquared 1432 days ago
It looks like restoration of an old painting where the aged, yellowed varnish is stripped away to reveal the (much brighter and more detailed) original painting below.
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Couldn’t you just do basic photo touch ups to get the Hubble to look about the same???
No. Webb looks deeper into the infrared and can see galaxies that Hubble can't see. There're some red galaxies in Webb (upper-right especially) that aren't in Hubble's at all.