Want To Know What Caused This Cosmic Smiley In Space? NASA Explains

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a formation of galaxies that resembles a smiling face, said the space agency.

On Saturday, NASA posted an image on its Instagram handle that showed 2 yellow orbs above an arc of light - that looked exactly like a smiley face in space. Asking followers to find the face, NASA explained that using unprecedented resolution of the Hubble's camera it was able to locate and study regions of star formation.

The arc of light is a galaxy whose shape has been distorted and stretched as a result of passing a massive gravity source, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

"The lower, arc-shaped galaxy has the characteristic shape of a galaxy that has been gravitationally lensed -- its light has passed near a massive object en route to us, causing it to become distorted and stretched out of shape," said NASA.

The smiling face is located in the galaxy cluster SDSS J0952+3434, and was shot with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

*With inputs from NDTV*