It legit looks like an AI image generator was told to generate a nebula that's also a bat
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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I feel like this has definitely been touched up.
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NASA always touches up their photographs to add color and contrast or else space would look very boring.
I highly doubt NASA is in the business of doing that (and FWIW Snopes agrees with me).
Read the comment right above yours:
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.
Whoa. It looks like a bat. Not like the horse head nebula, which looks more like a headless human to me.