or I should say us,
it is in fact what appears to be the
largest happy face in existence, the eyes alone are two different galaxies,
SDSSCGB 8842.3 and SDSSCGB 8842.4, and the smile is an optical illusion caused
by something called strong gravitational lensing, a phenomenon
where the gravitational pull of an object is so powerful it causes space time to
warp, effectively distorting the light around it, you can read more about it
over on Hubble’s website, the wonders of the universe never cease to amaze me.
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