Yes, it is an infrared telescope by design. Colors can still be assigned to produce an artificially colored image from the telescope by using the infrared spectrum, energy intensities and spectral line emission/absorption. The cameras in you phone don't see color either, but by using red, green and blue dyes, it can use the light absorption of those dyes to vary the intensity of the light on each light sensor on the chip/CCD to create an artificial color representation of what it sees. Hell, even your eyes are doing this very same trick as each color receptor has varying responses to certain wavelength bands and your brain combines these responses into a composite color image. I don't know what you're upset about here. All color images are artificial in nature both in their capture and viewing. There is no such thing as a true color image.