NASA's Response to Viral TikTok Claim of Finding Heaven

A viral TikTok video claims that NASA found "Heaven" with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994, but the image is fake and part of a 30-year-old hoax. The alleged discovery was originally published in a tabloid and resurfaced in the viral video, which recycles the debunked story. The image's diffraction spikes don't match Hubble's, and there is no record of the key figure, Dr. Marcia Masson, in scientific literature. This is not the first time such claims have surfaced, as people have been attributing religious significance to space discoveries for decades.