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Do they captured a real picture of the planet or the image is artificialy colored?

The colors are "real" in the sense that they correspond to different wavelengths of light, but they have almost assuredly been adjusted so they match the range the human eye can see.

> Artist's conception of PSO J318.5-22. Credit: MPIA/V. Ch. Quetz

From the image caption of the article.

I mean, the other image[1].

[1] http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/2013/1-astrangelone.j...

The planet radiates only in Infra-Red, so the frequencies have been surely mapped into our visible spectrum.

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