The Cosmic Bat Nebula

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221031.html

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mozz@mbin.grits.dev · 18 pts · 2y (6 replies)

It legit looks like an AI image generator was told to generate a nebula that's also a bat

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I feel like this has definitely been touched up.

Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Pervert

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

NASA always touches up their photographs to add color and contrast or else space would look very boring.

mozz@mbin.grits.dev · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I highly doubt NASA is in the business of doing that (and FWIW Snopes agrees with me).

Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Read the comment right above yours:

https://lemm.ee/comment/8535233

mozz@mbin.grits.dev · 4 pts · 2y

There's a big difference between "touched up" as in, fix the contrast and adjust the color balance, versus "touched up" as in let's make a nebula look like a bat. The first, me and Ricky are in agreement that they're doing. The second, me and Snopes feel strongly that they're not doing.

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 8 pts · 2y

Whoa. It looks like a bat. Not like the horse head nebula, which looks more like a headless human to me.

Amro@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

@fossilesque Geez... Scarecrow, this stuff is fucked up! Ya sure about this dosage?

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
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