[oops wrong info, deleted]
although I gotta say the monster they are hiding is a cutie pie! doesn't look like a dragon though.
https://godinanutshell.com/2017/01/17/red-dragon/
So that is a double image of Saturn recorded by IRAS in 1983. There are multiple versions of the IRAS data, google sky uses the "Improved Reprocessing of the IRAS Survey" also known as IRIS. The IRIS version has been recalibrated and that particular section was removed since the major planets are not supposed to be part of all-sky surveys. IRAS had to complete its scan of the entire (or almost the entire) sky in about a year of time before its coolant ran out. Once the cryogenic coolant was exhausted the telescope's own internal heat washed out the long wavelength far infrared part of the spectrum it was surveying. Thus there was no time to wait for Saturn to "move out of the way" for the survey to go back and scan that part of the sky without Saturn in it. In fact IRAS was designed to scan the sky line by line with a single column of pixels, and as a result of the way it scanned the sky, Saturn was captured twice at two different time points resulting in a "double image" of the planet.
https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2016/05/11/757/
If you look up the raw data tables on the IRAS data, you'll find that this area of the sky was scanned on two dates, July 14 1983 and July 24 1983.
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/worksp...canpi/13h_47m_57.24s_-08d_33m_01.9s.v0001/b1/
The above link is a temporary directory created when I called up the tables that correspond to those coordinates, but it will be automatically removed after a certain period of time, so I downloaded a couple of the scan tables and uploaded them here for future reference, they are the .tbl files:
http://dropcanvas.com/8up0p
UTCS in the above scan tables refers to seconds from the date January 1, 1981. Adding the seconds seen in those scan tables to that date you arrive at July 14 and July 24, 1983. Now take the coordinates of Saturn as seen from earth on those two dates and plug them back into IRAS raw image search (accessible here:
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/ISSA/ ):
July 14 1983 coordinates:
13h 47m 56.27s -08d 28' 02.9"
July 24 1983 coordinates:
13h 48m 57.41s -08d 36' 36.4"
Here are the resulting charts, the cyan crosshairs show where those coordinates match up with the IRAS data:
July 14 1983 coordinates:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/b97c237989ab2955a38e66049c5539e5.jpg)
July 24 1983 coordinates:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/dbc800e79465e3acf8fb4fbef1be3638.jpg)
A perfect match in both cases. These grayscale images are from the 12 micron band. You can take those coordinates into SkyView Virtual Observatory (
https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/current/cgi/query.pl ) and generate color versions if you like. The 100 micron band with the "Prism" color table selected appears to be what was featured above:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/12793ef3788241340029a952f70ca678.jpg)
You'll note the black box is there again in the IRIS data, but not in the original IRAS data which is also available from SkyView.
The WISE telescope is the modern successor to IRAS, and like IRAS it had a limited supply of cryogenic coolant which meant they had about a year to survey the entire sky at far infrared wavelengths in 2010. Similar issues can be seen in the original WISE survey data, and in fact Jupiter in the WISE data has been claimed by at least one "Nibiru researcher" as being "Nibiru." Here's a video I did about that:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_ArwlzG-4