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The Cosmic Bat Nebula (mander.xyz)
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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] 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.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 2 years ago

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 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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