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No, ISS Astronaut Scott Kelly Did Not Take a Picture Of a UFO [Starts With a Bang]
“It’s almost like I feel I’m just moving there, and I’m not coming back.” -Scott Kelly
On his 233rd day in space, ISS astronaut Scott Kelly took a photo of the earth at night that has since gone viral, showing a number of cities in India and a star field above the planet’s atmosphere and airglow.
Image credit: ISS astronaut Scott Kelly, via https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/666042034633883649/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw.
But in the upper right of the photo, a Star Destroyer-esque light looms. As I explain, however, this is simply light reflecting off of the ISS’s HDEV module, nothing more complex or extraordinary than that.
Image credit: NASA, of ESA’s Columbus module.
Go see how we know, and how easy it is to fool ourselves if we’re not careful.
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2015/11/22/no-iss-astronaut-scott-kelly-did-not-take-a-picture-of-a-ufo/
