A couple of days ago, NASA posted an intriguing image on its Instagram page and asked its followers, “What do you see in the image”? The post was soon crowded by space aficionados who tried to guess the answer, but most failed. This recent NASA viral image is a series of posts NASA does on its social media handles in order to promote awareness and education around space and technology. These interactive and engaging posts are a great way to teach people about things that exist in our universe but are barely talked about. Not leaving the followers curious, NASA Instagram page later edited the post to reveal the real answer. Read on to find out.
The image featured four black and white structures with different 3D geometric shapes. In order to make it more fun, NASA even offered some hints to all the participants of this game. NASA said that it could be a mini James Webb Space Telescope or even “two starfighters from a galaxy far, far away,” referencing the popular space movie Star Wars. These interactive posts by NASA create a lot of buzz on social media. This post had NASA trending all over Instagram with more than 4.3 lakh likes and more than 2,300 comments.
Even though many commentators took cues from NASA to guess ‘Tie Fighter’, a small spaceship in the Star Wars movie, it was not really the right answer. Other responses included ‘Captain America’s shield’, cryptocurrency and mini satellites. But sadly none of them were correct. After a while, NASA came to the rescue and answered what the image really was. It turns out the NASA viral image were snowflakes. But the story behind it is way more interesting than you can imagine.
“These are a few of the many snowflake images collected by NASA’s IMPACTS mission, which studies
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