Off-topic but is this really the eye of God?
You may have gotten this photo in your email, along with its caption "The Eye of God." While it is pretty incredible, this is what one fact-checking website, Truth or Fiction, writes:According to the Hubbel Telescope site, this particular picture if of the HELIX NEBULA, which is about 650 light years from earth.
That duly noted, it's still a pretty cool photograph.
It is said to be the nearest planetary nebulae to earth.
A planetary nebula is gas around what used to be a star much like our sun.
The photograph is not just from the Hubble telescope, but is a composite of data from the Hubble telescope and from Kitt Peak in Tucson, Arizona.
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