Harvard ‘Black Hole’ Is a ‘Discovery of a Lifetime’ A popular post to r/science addressed the discovery of new behavior from a previously observed black hole.
‘TIL Astronaut Jack Schmidt Discovered He Was Allergic to Moon Dust, Which Is a Thing….’ "Jack Schmidt, loading an epipen and climbing back into the shuttle: Moon’s an allergen."
‘NASA Just Dropped New Planet Pics’ A July 2022 Facebook post leveraged interest in NASA's JWST to spread a set of old photos and composites as images that the agency had "just dropped."
‘Saturn as Captured from a Backyard Telescope’ A popular Facebook image purportedly was a photo of Saturn, "as captured from a backyard telescope."
‘NASA’ Warns Asteroid Headed Toward Earth? A phony asteroid warning attributed to NASA circulated in May 2022.
‘NASA Has Outdone Themselves, This Is an Image of the Entire Observable Universe’ It seems like attributing anything to NASA in a congratulatory tone is a recipe for social media engagement.
Is This ‘Our Planet From the Side of the Pacific Ocean’? A January 2022 Imgur repost purportedly showed a rarely-seen perspective of Earth.
’48 Pictures of the Sun’ A long-circulating photograph purportedly showing the transit of the sun throughout the year was shared to Facebook in December 2021.
‘November 2021 Lunar Eclipse, The Longest in 580 Years’ Social media's fondness for celestial events turned to posts about a November 19 2021 lunar eclipse, purportedly the longest event of its type in 580 years.
‘Closest Pic of Saturn from Inside Its Rings by the Cassini Spacecraft Two Weeks Ago’ A viral post purportedly shows the "closest pic of Saturn from inside its rings," captured "two weeks ago."
