Social media users spread erroneous claim of distant city lights found by NASA | Fact check [USA TODAY]
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An April 14 Facebook video ( direct link archive link ) shows a woman talking about a supposed NASA discovery in front of a screen that shows a planet illuminated by lights. "I'm sure you've heard the news of NASA discovering city lights on a planet 7 trillion miles away," the woman says in the video, which was originally shared on TikTok The Facebook post garnered more than 40,000 shares in three weeks. Other versions of the post were also shared on Facebook More from the Fact-Check Team: How we pick and research claims | Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: False A NASA spokesperson said the administration has not discovered any such thing. A NASA article published a few months before the TikTok video describes an infrared emission discovered on a cosmic body much farther away. No city lights discovered by NASA Lynn Chandler , a NASA spokesperson, told USA TODAY the claim is false. The only news resembling the TikTok user's claim can be found in an article p
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