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Those bright, white dots in the images are stars in our galaxy. The ‘white light’ you’re asking about in the distant galaxies are stars too, but so far away that they don’t appear as individual points of light. The darker ‘stuff’ are clouds of gas and dust — called nebulae — within the distant galaxies.
