Nasa releases smiley face made up of Galaxies.

OMG aliens are really messing with us now .



It is Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1038+4849.

Cool pic

a reply to: boymonkey74

You didn't mention the gravitational lensing.
Really cool!

www.fromquarkstoquasars.com...

Yep, gravitational lensing, due to the Relativistic time-space bending. I'd love to see the Electric Universe supporters (who reject Relativity) explain that.

The really cool part is that this "smiley" was spotted by a member of public, Judy Schmidt, who submitted a version of the image to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition, where anyone can sift through the Hubble's massive data pools to highlight hitherto ignored sights from the stars. www.washingtonpost.com...

Here it is as seen by the Sloan Digitized Sky Survey: click!

a reply to: Phage

gravitational lensing.

Thanks Phage , once again ATS has made me learn something . Gravitational lensing , if i got this right objects closest are bending the light from behind . Cool pic but kind of creepy in a way .

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T STARE DIRECTLY AT IT

a reply to: Phage

Oops sorry and cheers Phage .

4.5 billion light years away...mind blowingly far man.

(Is blowingly a word If not it should be lol).

a reply to: boymonkey74

blowingly

Perhaps a term better suited to an ex .......... never mind

a reply to: hutch622

It looks like bensons face from the regular show cartoon
a reply to: boymonkey74

a reply to: boymonkey74

I now have a new desktop background.

Thanx

a reply to: normipoo

Not seen it is it a USA show?.

Is this from one of the nine Deep Field pics? The Hubble should make a new Deep Field picture at least once a month. Imagine if we had a couple hundred Deep Fields to play with by now, that would be my ideal Hubble project.

Here's a list of the nine Deep Fields, from Wikipedia, not all of them are by Hubble, and one is a composite of the same field with added data:
en.wikipedia.org...

I suddenly feel the urge to go to Jack in the Box and eat a hamburger, and I don't even like Jack in the Box hamburgers that much:

originally posted by: normipoo
It looks like bensons face from the regular show cartoon

a reply to: boymonkey74

Perhaps it's the Universe's way of telling us all to quit slacking off and get back to work.

originally posted by: wildespace
The really cool part is that this "smiley" was spotted by a member of public, Judy Schmidt, who submitted a version of the image to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition, where anyone can sift through the Hubble's massive data pools to highlight hitherto ignored sights from the stars. www.washingtonpost.com...

Wait, there's a competition for Hubble image processing?!!!! I didn't know that, I've been processing Hubble data routinely for a long time now. Man, I should have entered the contest!

I remember when I first saw that at the cinema...

This is what I thought of at first, in part due to your comment about "messing with us"... at least, before I noticed that the "extended" smile going up the left side is a disconnected, seperate galaxy (i think) and can instead be seen as the left cheek (it's right/our left) to compliment the right "cheek"...