SDSS J1038+4849 - The Smiley Face Galactic Cluster

[gary]

Rachel Feltman reports today in the Washington Post on a Hubble image
submitted to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition
by contestant Judy Schmidt of the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849.

Two bright galaxies and the Einstein ring of gravitational lensing create
one big smiley face.

Article and picture -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...face-in-space/

Space Telescope web site article -
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1506a/

[Ric]

That's cool.

[el_draco (Rom)]

I can see it now... the "eye of God" will be superseded by the "smiley of God"....