Just for people who aren't familiar with astronomical pictures: this is a composite image. Your tiny weak-ass lame eyes, which are sensitive only to light between 0.4 and 0.8 micrometer, wouldn't see that. The electromagnetic spectrum extends way beyond these puny numbers in both directions. The glowing stuff you see on the north pole is either seen in ultraviolet (invisible to your eyes because too high frequency) or in decametric (invisible to your eyes because way, way, way too low frequency). Does that make this image a lie? No. Reality has no obligation to fit into our shitty senses, and everything that makes you understand stuff is worth looking at.
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