#fake astronomy

[amindamazed]

NO. This is one of the WORST eclipse images.

THIS IS AI 'ART.'

I looked at the archives of tumblr account nasa-official (which states up front is not actually officially NASA anything), and it wasn't posted there. If that 'via' was intended to be some other social media account, I highly doubt it was one affiliated with actual NASA employees unless they are also trolls. I was able to confirm this in the post notes. Multiple people in the notes linked to the Instagram post that clearly stated it was AI generated.

FYI most extremely detailed beautiful images of places in this solar system and especially those featuring planetary landscapes as a backdrop to something in the sky are either artist renditions (a view of Saturn's rings from the surface of one of its moons comes to mind, don't have a link) or outright fakes like this one.

(these comments not specifically directed to the person I reblogged from but generally to the thousands of reblogs that share posts like this one thinking they're real.)

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

[surenschompychompers]

The little reblog map things of your most popular posts are like constellations in your own personal sky and I want to chart them

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Serenity Nebula, A Fake Photo/Nebula

If You Could Create A Nebula, What Would It Look Like?

[logorrhea5mip]

We're not ready for space Tumblr.

★ Star-of-this-show-deactivatedz=1.3

What if i try fusing just a bit of iron. As a treat.

⭐ StarryMcStarface

And their corpse is still here. Don't do drugs kids.

🇳 Neutral-To-The-Core

> their corpse

You called?

🔴 BetterRedThanDead

I don't care what you think about it, a binary relationship between a white dwarf and a giant is always predatory

Like you're literally taking their upper atmosphere from them. And using it for fusion, like you deserve to have it again even when you ran out of hydrogen eons ago.

⚪ PaleGlow44

Yeah well me and my partner @Hydrogen-Daddy increased our matter transfer rate several times this millennium just to spite you.

⭕ Hydrogen-Daddy

And we liked it. A lot.

⚫ BlackHeartBrightOutside

Preach. Nothing predatory in me eating half of my neighbors.

⚪ PaleGlow44

THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU!!

Fuck right off!

🌟 FlareStarBestStar

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

☀️ TheHeliosHimself

Some of the wet gunk on my 3rd rock is getting interesting colors, i wonder what that means?

☀️ TheHeliosHimself

Update: It's getting into weird shapes and even changing things a bit on the planet. I'd almost be concerned if there was ever a chance of it impacting me in any way

☀️ TheHeliosHimself

Dysom Spfhere

⚫ Quasar53

I don't understand why everyone goes so crazy about planets with rings.

I have a ring too, and it's larger than your entire stellar system.

And it emits enough x rays to melt your face from 10 parsecs away

🔵 Bluer-than-thou

But don't you have to kill a guy to get one?

⚫ Quasar53

Well, beauty has a price sweetheart.

[pemdas-chicken-nugget]

day 30!🎉

The Iris. It is with us now. Laughing at us.

but fr, i LOVE GHE, and the fact that you can connect it to Solarballs is only fueling my obsession with both of them😵‍💫

i wanted to make him look as fake as possible, as if he tries to camouflage himself to gain trust of others, but still normal looking

i guess i'm still not skilled enough to convey that balance fully, but I'm happy with what i have(maybe)

[emvisual]

Estas fotos puede que sean falsas, o no. Igual son fotos de infrarrojos en HDR.

En cualquier caso son unas fotos preciosas del eclipse .

[powdermelonkeg]

I found Cybertron!

[cookiefate]

Cookiefate for August 30th:

"A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile."

Fake smile until you're actually smiling.

[antxnous]

there is some stock bro absolutely tweaking in front of me in class

[wallpaper-inside-my-heart]

💙Smoshblr December Asks Day 30💛

top 3 favourite planets 🌌

Saturn! 🪐-> It's just so pretty! Like look at its rings!

2. Neptune! 💙-> such a gorgeous blue colour!

3. Venus! 🧡 -> Our beautiful morning/evening"star"

-> Fun fact: Did you know that you can tell if you are looking at a star or planet, by whether or not it "blinks"? If it blinks/twinkles it's a star and if the light remains consistent then it is a planet! (That's have you can easily spot Venus most nights! 😊)

[scarlettgauthor]

A Candlenights Sermon

So five years ago a friend of mine said, "I grew up religious and I don't want anything to do with that anymore, but damn do I miss the good parts of a Christmas Eve service, like singing together and lighting candles!" and I said, "Well, what if we invent our own holiday? With singing? And candles?" and she said, "That sounds awesome!" and then we stole the name Candlenights from the McElroy brothers and I wrote a non-religious sermon and we rewrote our favorite carols to be secular and now, five years later, we have a new holiday tradition.

This is all backstory to explain what I'm about to share, which is my 2022 Candlenights sermon. Please join me if you would like to cry about space.

~~~

Hello, dear friends and dear family. We gather in the winter darkness once again, as we have for the last five years; as we have for our whole lives; as those who came before us have, on and on, back to the beginnings of people. Back to when the first monkey raised its head to look at the sky, and instead of only seeing the darkness, saw the stars.

Saw the light.

I think humanity fell in love right then, fell in love with the wide sprawl of the universe and all its secrets. Why else would we dedicate ourselves to it, as we have throughout time? Why else would we look at those sparkling lights in the velvet darkness and give them names and stories? Why would we do that, if it wasn’t to bring them closer to ourselves?

The first recorded evidence of constellations comes from 3000 BC in Mesopotamia, as our ancient ancestors sought to draw the stars out of the sky and know them better. We saw ourselves in them, and named them accordingly. "The Loyal Shepherd of Heaven," “The Seed-Furrow,” “The Farmworker.” Do you still know them? Do you recognize Orion, Virgo, and Aries? Did you know how far back our stories go?

The first telescope came in 1608, allowing us closer to the stars and the universe; allowing us to see the light we loved in greater detail, almost close enough to touch. We saw the craters on the moon; we saw Saturn’s rings for the first time; we looked at the cloudy arc of the Milky Way and learned that it wasn’t a cloud. It was more stars, each of them a tiny point of light.

America launched the first Orbiting Solar Observatory in 1962, and we could look at the stars from out there with them, as though we were one of them. We learned about gamma rays in our solar system and distant galaxies; observed solar flares from the Sun, our closest star; saw parts of stars that were previously unseeable, that we’d only dreamed were there.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, the culmination of twenty years of work by humans who loved the stars so much they fought through earthly concerns like budget issues and engineering mistakes; humans who were so devoted that three years later they made repairs to the Hubble in space to bring the stars closer. We saw things we could never have imagined, great beauty and great destruction, birth and death and so, so much light.

Last December the James Webb Space Telescope was launched after over twenty-five years of development, because we love the stars so much we can never be satisfied. Earlier this year we saw the culmination of that work, and oh, what a culmination. Hundreds of thousands of galaxies previously invisible to us. Nebulae we thought we knew from the Hubble shown to us in awesome detail. Stars being born among the corpses of supernovae. Stars. So many stars.

Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine the line of discovery that traces from our earliest ancestors all the way to us now. Imagine taking your ancient relative by the hand and sharing this knowledge. Imagine looking at the wide, unmapped sky together and telling them our stories, about their future descendants who loved the stars so much we found a way to go out among them.

Don’t you think that they would be proud? That no matter how far we’ve come, we still stand in the darkness and look for the light?

There’s a poem by Mary Oliver called The Summer Day. You may have heard the final lines before, as they’ve been co-opted to support hustle culture or grinding or working out or whatever else capitalism thinks it needs to sell us. I think that’s a shame, as the full poem is much kinder, and gentler, and wondrous than that. Let me read it for you now:

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

My dears, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? 

I plan to live the way I want to live, and love who I want to love, and always look for the light wherever I can. I hope that you will join me.

Happy Candlenights.

[astriiformes]

The best thing about my university having a robust history of science program isn't even that I get to take so many history of science classes, it's that people will ask what I study and I'll explain I'm doing an individualized degree and one of my focuses is in the history of science and then they'll be like "Oh that sounds so cool, what's your favorite part/what do you know about [insert history of science topic]" and then I get to infodump for free

[mysteriousboo]

Boop of the day!

Can you see the eclipse today? If yes what is your plan for today. If no do you wish to see an eclipse someday ?

Personally I will watch the eclipse today. I plan to watch close to where I live since my town is in the totality of the eclipse. Also closed everything at home to be sure that my cat don't see anything so his eyes will be okay.

Boop back!!

i can see the eclipse today, but i don't plan on seeing it, lol!! i would prolly prefer watching it from an observatory, lmao!! but i am super busy this week because of final exams, and i should prioritize studying rn!! but i follow a bunch of astrophysicists, so i'm sure they will post a nice video for me to look at!! yes, we closed the curtains for albert today as well!! he needs to be protected!!

[prismatoxic]

people who get really impassioned about pluto no longer being considered a planet are kind of sad, aren't they.

pluto still exists. it is still A Thing, with its own classification that better describes what it actually is. why can't you accept pluto for what it is? why do you think losing planet status "ruined it"?

[canonstoryoftheirown]

I am rather sick and tired of the newest Instagram trend, to share photos of night skies where they have added surrealistic light effects with Photoshop or something. The lights are always green and it is only night skies. I have seen pictures of UFOs and "HAARP" related stuff so many times and clearly it is fake, or the money-hungry mass media (more now than ever) would print all about it. Both UFOs and "HAARP" has been debunked, if this is an art trend, I think it is rather stupid, or if it is a new AI toy they downloaded, still stupid. As a protest against those influencers, and now I am completely transparent, I took a picture of a DAY TIME sky, added RED light effects instead, using GIMP (FOSS Software, no money was wasted during this process). Here is the result. And no, I have not heard alien voices in my head. Nor have I had visits of strange secret cops, nor have I seen "bugs in the matrix", There is broadcast content on the radio, NO little green men talking NOR static on the radio, and all electric devices work just fine! By the way, can you see the harp in the sky? Probably not but you can clearly hear it on your analog AM radio overseas from Vienna, EU