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I'm not saying that it's not true, but I'm also saying, before you take the post as gospel, think about the source. An anonymous user on the net who says that they worked for NASA. It could be the case, or it could totally be a 13 year old troll.

In Astrophotography, post processing is everything, but that doesn't necessarily mean inventing data where there was none. Sometimes, it's more about greatly enhancing what little data is there. It's also not unusual to crank the saturation WAY up to bring out the colors that were in the original image, but not visible or maybe just barely visible.

There may be many elements of truth to the post, but it could be that some elements are incorrect, whether that's due to human error or maliciousness, we'll probably never know.