Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Say cheese! Hubble telescope captures extraterrestrial smiley face

Smiley face from deep space - (nasa.gov)

Kinda creepy in a way. This image is the result of gravitational lensing, where an object (in this case a group of massive galaxies) bend the light from objects behind them. In essence the galaxy cluster acts as a lens focusing the light into contorted and stretched images.

See the full article here.

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Day 2 and 3 of Night Sky Observatory build

Yesterday was the day to complete the removal of the remaining grass and to travel to three Home Depots to finally get the 16"x48"...