Smiley face galaxy cluster captured by Hubble telescope

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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It may look like a smiley face beaming down from the heavens - but this is actually a massive galaxy cluster.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the image. It looks like two glowing yellow eyes and several curved lines forming a face and a smile. The two glowing eyes are actually two distant galaxies.

The smile is a result of what astronomists call strong gravitational lensing.

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