{"id":925803,"date":"2026-10-12T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925803\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:20:12","slug":"cluster-of-galaxies-in-the-universe-form-a-smiley-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925803\/","title":{"rendered":"Cluster of galaxies in the universe form a smiley face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-text\">NASA\u2019s Hubble Telescope captures stunning images of the Trifid Nebula in deep space, nearly 5,000 light-years away from Earth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Astronomers are fascinated by new images captured by <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NASA\u2019s<\/a> Hubble Space Telescope that appear to show a smiley face in our vast universe.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">NASA officials used the <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-new-astronomical-object-cloud-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> to capture a galaxy cluster in the dark corners of our universe, arranged to look like a smiley face.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">According to officials, the two bright spots that form the eyes of the smiley face are orange galaxies, while a white galaxy forms the small nose and the arc of the smile; the head shape is caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/search?q=gravity%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gravitational<\/a> lensing.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hutdtrpwyaa04bd.jpg\" alt=\"Galaxy cluster forms a smiley face in the dark corners of the universe.\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Galaxy cluster forms a smiley face in the dark corners of the universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (@NASA \/ X)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Gravitational lensing is a natural effect that occurs when a massive object, like a galaxy cluster, warps space and time, causing light to bend, distort, and magnify as it passes around the object.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Albert Einstein was among the first to describe this sequence of events, fusing space and time into a term known as &#8220;spacetime&#8221; and describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Many other orange and white galaxies are sprinkled across the universe, along with one bright star with diffraction spikes at the bottom of the image.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/october-skywatching-guide-hunters-moon-2-famous-meteor-showers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">OCTOBER SKYWATCHING GUIDE: HUNTER&#8217;S MOON, METEOR SHOWERS, SATURN AT OPPOSITION AND MORE YOU CAN&#8217;T MISS<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/FgB6PRQXkAI6o54.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">NASA\u2019s Solar File: File: Dynamics Observatory caught the Sun &#8220;smiling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (@NASASun \/ Twitter \/ NASA)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/sun-showcases-smiley-appearance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SAY CHEESE! SUN SHOWCASES SMILEY APPEARANCE<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">In the past, astronomers were able to observe a similar occurrence in 2022, when officials at NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory discovered the sun developed a face-like pattern during a <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_earth-space_article_main-content_article-body_2_7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/solar-eclipse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">solar eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Hubble Telescope captures stunning images of the Trifid Nebula in deep space, nearly 5,000 light-years away from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,262425,31377,131,128,285,68005,262426],"class_list":["post-925803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-earth-space","tag-learn","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-weather","tag-stay22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}