Hubble notices a "smiling face" in a host of distant galaxies

Hubble is back in action and recently saw a configuration of galaxies resembling a smiling face.

There, in the immensity of space, something smiles at the Hubble telescope.

The spacecraft recently imaged a vast expanse of sky that hosts a distant galactic cluster. Hubble met a friendly face in a busy crowd of galaxies.

While he was investigating the galactic cluster known as SDSS J0952 + 3434, Hubble spotted a very happy galaxy formation resembling a smiling face, reports . CNet .

"The Hubble telescope finally proves that when we set the space, the galaxy sometimes smiles," notes the media.

The image of the "smiling face" was captured by Hubble's wide field. Camera 3 or WFC3. Unveiled by NASA on Friday, the snapshot reveals that galaxy formation looks suspiciously like a pair of bright eyes and a smiling mouth.

"Two yellow-hued blobs hang over a large beam of light," NASA officials said. "The lower galaxy, arc-shaped, has the characteristic shape of a galaxy that has been gravitationally focused – its light has pbaded near a mbadive object en route to us, which distorts and distorts it. "

At the space agency, Hubble took the picture by scanning the galactic cluster in search of newborn stars.

"Hubble captured this image in order to understand how new stars appear in the cosmos. The WFC3 is able to visualize distant galaxies with unprecedented resolution – high enough to locate and study the star formation regions that are found there, "NASA said.

The process from which stars emerge begins with a huge cloud of gas in a stellar nursery.

"By badyzing the luminosity, size, and rate of formation of different stellar nurseries, scientists hope to learn more about the processes that can result. lead to the formation of a new star, "said NASA.

The Space Agency this week released another fascinating Hubble photo of a star-forming region, this time in the Serpens Nebula, 1,300 light-years away from Earth. 19659003] The image was posted on the NASA website on Halloween and highlighted a mysterious phenomenon described as a "bat-shadow", visible in the upper right-hand corner of the photo.

The so-called "bat-shadow" is essentially a feature projected by one of the bright stars of the nebula. Nicknamed HBC 672, the bright star illuminates its environment and casts its own shadow on the surrounding debris ring.

This ring is an accumulation of dust, rocks and ice that gravitate around the star and have remained unnoticed because it is too small and too far to be seen – even by Hubble.

"It's badogous to what the solar system looked like when it was only 1 or 2 million years old," said one astronomer. Klaus Pontoppidan, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. "As far as we know, the solar system has already created a shadow like this."

Hubble is back online only recently, as a result of a gyroscope problem that Cut into orbit early October. As previously reported Inquisitr NASA replaced the failed equipment with a spare part – but the emergency gyroscope also showed signs of malfunction.

Nevertheless, Hubble has managed to put the problem behind and is now back in action and ready to marvel us with more amazing snapshots of the cosmos.