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Since the James Webb telescope primarily operates in the infrared, does that mean we can't expect magnificently colored images from it of the kind we got from the Hubble telescope?

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The "magnificently colored images" are false colored unfortunately - the colors are derived by assigning colors to wavelengths which are faint or invisible to the human eye: purple to ultraviolet, reds to infrared, etc. I learned this in a presentation by a Hubble scientist at an astronomical imaging conference. While their work was brillant, there was a tiny part of me that was scandalized by the whole thing.

So, for the James Webb, I'm sure they will be able to do the same thing to help improve and bring out details in it's images - it's just that the scale will be shifted to the red a bit.

Article: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/index.php/2016/09/13/hub...

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