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  • ‘NASA Has Outdone Themselves, This Is an Image of the Entire... (en)
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  • ‘NASA Has Outdone Themselves, This Is an Image of the Entire Observable Universe’ Claim NASA has outdone themselves, this is an image of the entire observable Universe. This is incredible. #NASA Rating Decontextualized Like this fact check? Reporting On March 19 2022, a Facebook user shared what looked like a cropped Twitter screenshot, depicting a purported NASA image of the entire observable universe: Text on the night mode screenshot read: NASA has outdone themselves, this is an image of the entire observable Universe. This is incredible. #NASA Search quickly turned up the tweet shown in the screenshot. It was originally shared on March 16 2022, and it racked up engagement on Twitter, too: NASA has outdone themselves, this is an image of the entire observable Universe. This is incredible. #NASA pic.twitter.com/v8AFvZPkEY Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — Liam John Moore (@Mooreskywatcher) March 16, 2022 Similar images of space or science related content have circulated virally in the past, almost always out of context. In December 2021, a purported most detailed image of a human cell circulated virally — not dissimilar to a purported close-up of a skin mite : ‘Most Detailed Image of a Human Cell’ In contrast with the thousands of likes on the tweet embedded above, a second tweet by the same account in the thread had 22 likes on March 25 2022. It was added on March 20 2022, and read: Credit for this incredible image goes to @budassiuniverse 👏 Thank you Clicking through to the tagged account led to a pinned September 2021 tweet about NASA’s purported entire observable universe image: New updated link to explore this infographic or get a print: https://t.co/RmuCUFSF51 — Pablo Carlos Budassi (@budassiuniverse) September 21, 2021 Twitter user Pablo Carlos Budassi linked to a February 2021 blog post , The Celestial Zoo. Text at the top of the post read: THE CELESTIAL ZOO is a tour of 210 places of interest in our Universe, describing each landscape with curious facts that are a must-know when planning our trips through the Cosmos. Featuring the most bizarre galaxies, stars, planets, and other weirdos of all colors and shapes, the information contained is updated as of February 2021. The circular view of the universe in the middle was assembled by Pablo Carlos Budassi by combining logarithmic astronomical maps from Princeton University and images from NASA. On March 16 2022, NASA featured Budassi’s illustration as one of its Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) posts. Additional information identified the image as an illustration created by Budassi, adding: Explanation: How far can you see? Everything you can see, and everything you could possibly see, right now, assuming your eyes could detect all types of radiations around you — is the observable universe. In light, the farthest we can see comes from the cosmic microwave background, a time 13.8 billion years ago when the universe was opaque like thick fog. Some neutrinos and gravitational waves that surround us come from even farther out, but humanity does not yet have the technology to detect them. The featured image illustrates the observable universe on an increasingly compact scale, with the Earth and Sun at the center surrounded by our Solar System, nearby stars, nearby galaxies, distant galaxies, filaments of early matter, and the cosmic microwave background. Cosmologists typically assume that our observable universe is just the nearby part of a greater entity known as the universe where the same physics applies. However, there are several lines of popular but speculative reasoning that assert that even our universe is part of a greater multiverse where either different physical constants occur, different physical laws apply, higher dimensions operate, or slightly different-by-chance versions of our standard universe exist. On March 20 2022, video and image hoax-busting account @Hoaxeye tweeted: That’s not a NASA image. Infographic Celestial Zoo by Pablo Carlos Budassi ( @badassuniverse ). Source: https://t.co/sQwAgf7uip h/t @theshaeffer #RespectArtists https://t.co/f2bUNFrPHN — HoaxEye (@hoaxeye) March 20, 2022 On March 16 2022, a tweet saying, NASA has outdone themselves, this is an image of the entire observable Universe. This is incredible received widespread attention, sharing NASA’s APOD. NASA indeed shared the image, crediting illustrator Pablo Carlos Budassi as its creator. Budassi’s original post explained that the illustration was created by combining logarithmic astronomical maps from Princeton University and images from NASA. Although the finished infographic was striking, interesting, and shared by NASA, it was not an image of the entire observable universe, nor was it labeled as such by NASA. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged art out of context , entire observable universe , hoaxeye , NASA , nasa has outdone themselves , nasa memes , space memes , viral facebook posts , viral tweets (en)
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