[QUOTE]Say cheese! The Hubble Space Telescope captured this friendly image of the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 in the constellation Ursa Major. The eyes of this galactic happy face are two distant, bright galaxies, [URL="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1506a/"]according to an ESA release[/URL], and lines that make up the face and smile are actually arcs created by an effect called [URL="http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/news/grav_lens.html"]strong gravitational lensing[/URL]. Galaxy clusters are some of the universe’s most massive structures, capable of exerting a gravitational pull so strong, it warps the spacetime around them. By redirecting light rays, a galaxy cluster in the foreground acts as a cosmic lens that can magnify, distort, and bend the light that’s behind them. In this particular case, the bending of light from some faraway source produced a ring-like structure called an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring"]Einstein Ring[/URL]: the result of an exact, symmetrical alignment of the light source, the lens, and the observer. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.iflscience.com/space/smiley-face-galaxy-cluster-spotted-hubble[/url]
It's so neat to see what happens when gravity distorts light in interesting ways.
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That's some serious lensing
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I know it's said at least once per space thread
But space is wicked awesome.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;47110304]That's some serious lensing
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( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ?
it's like an intergalatic shitpost
space is cool.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;47110581]space is cool.[/QUOTE]
A brisk 2.7 Kelvin.
[QUOTE=EpikEnvy2.0;47110498]it's like an intergalatic shitpost[/QUOTE]
I knew a facepuncher would beat North Korea to space.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;47110654]A brisk 2.7 Kelvin.[/QUOTE]
Only 2.7 degrees warmer than the heart of your most recent ex.
Gravity lensing is such an incredible concept. It's so strange.
I like to imagine it's another species trying to convey friendliness.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;47111052]I like to imagine it's another species trying to convey friendliness.[/QUOTE]
Or [i]smugness[/i]. Those fuckers can manipulate shit in space way better than we can, and they're rubbing it in our faces. Get the nukes.
[QUOTE=Lijitsu;47111074]Or [i]smugness[/i]. Those fuckers can manipulate shit in space way better than we can, and they're rubbing it in our faces. Get the nukes.[/QUOTE]
I don't think nukes would help you very much against something capable of warping space like that.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47110718]Gravity lensing is such an incredible concept. It's so strange.[/QUOTE]
What's even better is we have gravity lensing going on around us. Anything with a mass, no matter how small in comparison to other larger objects, still bends light around it. Space (and by extension, the universe) is truly fascinating.
It even got a nose
Quickly, draw a giant penis! Let's show those aliens that we are an advanced species too!
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It reminds me of Bowser Jr's Koopa Clown Car.
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That is a fucking evil space god with it's eyes set on us. It just looks like that because we cannot comprehend it's physical form.[img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-tinfoil.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Bradyns;47110654]A brisk 2.7 Kelvin.[/QUOTE]that got me thinking, where does that, uh, "heat" come from? is it all the radiation swinging around?
Seriously looks a lot like the wormhole from Interstellar. I want to believe, but I don't and I don't need to. Space will always blow my mind.
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