Hubble telescope captures space smiley

Did the Hubble telescope capture a photo of an outer-space smiley face? Well, sort of.

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According to a Washington Post blog published Monday, Judy Schmidt spotted this image among Hubble's data and submitted it to Hubble's Hidden Treasures competition.

Although the image resembles an eerie extraterrestrial grin, it's just a photo of galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849. The "eyes" are two galaxies.

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