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APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 19 May, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Guenzel Explanation: Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring scene. In the telescopic field of view two bright yellowish stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum, stand just below and above the Jellyfish Nebula at the left. Cool red giants, they lie at the foot of the celestial twin. The Jellyfish Nebula itself floats below and left of center, a bright arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from that explosion first reached planet.
Fact check: Highly detailed sun image was not taken by NASA
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Fact check: Heavily edited viral image of sun s surface wasn t taken by NASA
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This week social media has been blowing up over an image depicting the sun as being super furry. It was attributed to NASA in the original post, but that’s not actually true.
NASA didn’t take the furry sun photo
The image in question was posted by the Nature is Lit Twitter account. It shows what is said to be the surface on the sun, which looks a little different to what you’d expect.