The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image which looks suspiciously like a villain from the hit 1970s video game Space Invaders.
The image was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, combined with near-infrared observations from the telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Ray Villard, from the Space Telescope Space
Insitute in Baltimore, says the sinister-looking feature is due to "gravitational lensing".
"The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to brighten and magnify the light coming from very distant background galaxies," he wrote on the NASA website.
"Like a fun house mirror, lensing creates a fantasy landscape of arc-like images and mirror images of background galaxies. The foreground cluster is 2 billion light-years away, and the lensed images come from galaxies far behind it.
