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A photograph purportedly showing as astronomical phenomenon dubbed the the gates of heaven began recirculating online in January 2016, after it was posted to Facebook along with claims that it had been taken by the Hubble Telescope and that scientists could not identify what it pictured: However, this image is a actually piece of digital artwork that was created by Adam Ferriss and based on a 2011 image taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) of the Swan Nebula: Although Ferriss did not specifically state how he created his digital artwork, it appears that he used a process known as pixel sorting, which he briefly described in a post about a similar image: We reached out to the artist for comment, who posted the following on his Instagram account in response:
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