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The Cosmic Bat Nebula (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I feel like this has definitely been touched up.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Pervert

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Read the comment right above yours:

https://lemm.ee/comment/8535233

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 2 years ago

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.