Astronaut posts beautiful Earth photo that Twitter promptly Photoshops

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We're now in an age where photos of space, taken from space, are becoming commonplace. We're also in an age where someone can swap out the moon for a moon emoji on Twitter.

Astronaut Rick Mastracchio posted a photo of the Earth and moon July 25, taken by a NASA camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite. And he remarked that it was so fantastic that it almost seemed too amazing to be a real photo.

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While some questioned the photo and others defended it, some Twitter users took a different route entirely. They Photoshopped the photo into something even more fantastic. To the point where they were actually too fantastic to believe.  Read more...

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