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For a science account, you sure did mess up here. This is fake. Yes, the Helix Nebula exists, but this image is not real, nor was it captured by the HST.

Thank you for this! I was staring at that picture, trying to figure out how a "nebula" could look that way. Came to the comments to figure out if it was misidentified or something, and now I feel kinda vindicated for my sceptisism. Do you know of any accounts I can follow who post GENUINE pics?

Dear reader: If you just came over from Twitter to Bluesky, welcome! First lesson in how we do things here: Rule 1: Block early and often. Don't accept bullshit. This claims to be a science channel, yet it just presented an AI generated image as real. Discuss? Debate? No! Just block. 🙃 Easy.

WOW‼️😳 Look at it sideways & it’s a Great BIG 👁️…‼️ (Tell the truth…it’s actually a marvelous painting‼️ Right⁉️ Oh‼️WAIT ‼️‼️ IT IS a Great big PAINTING ‼️😃 GOD painted it‼️🥳 🎚️” In the beginning GOD made the Heavens & the Earth”🙏🏻

Here’s the Helix nebula captured from my backyard. Narrow band fifers used to provide false colour image from a monochrome camera. Taken over 4 nights, exposures totalled just over 10 hours.