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Smile at the Universe, and the Universe will certainly smile at you the answer, sometimes almost literally. But for this you must have access to one of the most advanced automatic observatories on orbit our planet.
Hubble Space Telescope owned by NASA scientists and European Space Agency unexpectedly captured a trinity galaxies that look right from Earth right now like a smile face. Such a “space emoticon” quite surprised researchers, and they hastened to publish his image on the World Wide Web.
Of course, such a strange image in deep space is impossible. was overlooked. Specialists are especially pleased with this, since in Recently, the 28-year-old Hubble is increasingly failing because of his of considerable age. So, recently at the observatory out of order gyroscopes, so the telescope stopped working for several weeks until the broken parts were replaced with new ones.
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Scientists say that the “face” appeared in a cluster galaxies codenamed SDSS J0952 + 3434. The “emoticon” is a fancy play of light and gravity. Two shining yellow galaxies formed a kind of eye, while the curved the galaxy below has turned into a kind of arc resembling smiling mouth.
In fact, the lower galaxy is also flat, however due to an optical effect called gravitational lensing she bent visually. The light emitted by her passed on the way to us past a large celestial body whose gravitational field has distorted radiation.
Even if there is nothing in this image supernatural, experts say, it’s still about a real miracle. Light from distant galaxies has come to us for thousands of years, to get in the end such an amazing view, delighting and touching us with his universal “smile”.
By the way, note that the Hubble telescope captures the “smile of the universe” not for the first time, but every time she still surprises and touches astronomers and other space explorers …
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