From time to time, a very well taken space photo can go viral all over the internet. The photo you see below is one of them… But if it had been taken with the Hubble Space Telescope as claimed, it would mean that life on Earth would have disappeared.
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Let’s make your explanation right away. The photo was indeed published by NASA, but certainly not with the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits 547 kilometers above Earth and is usually busy taking pictures of galaxies billions of light-years away, not nearby planets like Saturn.
There is a very easy way to tell that this photo was not taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. If the Sun were really behind Saturn, then this photo should have been taken from Saturn orbit. Had the photo been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as claimed, then both the Hubble Space Telescope and Earth would have gone too close to Saturn and we would have froze to death long before the picture was taken!
Kidding aside, this photo released by NASA shows the aurora at Saturn’s south pole through an artist’s eyes. The reason why aurora lights are red is hydrogen…
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