{"id":804013,"date":"2026-10-16T02:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804013\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:26:18","slug":"nasa-galaxy-cluster-looks-like-smiley-face-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804013\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa: Galaxy cluster looks like smiley face in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Say cheese! Nasa has shared an image that looks like a face in space smiling for the camera. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The smiley face is actually a galaxy cluster which is around 4.5 billion light-years away from Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Galaxy clusters are the most massive structures in the universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The orange eyes are two very bright galaxies. Another white galaxy looks like a nose while what appears to be smile lines are made by an effect called strong gravitational lensing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa explains this as when galaxy clusters act as cosmic lenses &#8211; magnifying, distorting and bending the light behind them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Say cheese! Nasa has shared an image that looks like a face in space smiling for the camera.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}