Chill

Original Image Credit: Andrew FruchterSTScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA
Scaled and Cropped for Presentation Here

I'm sure everyone is aware that we're currently living in a volatile and hyper-sensitive world...just today I scanned the news and found so many things that are stirring up unrest worldwide, that I decided to forego the agitation and focus on something cool.

Abell 2218 is a cluster of galaxies so dense and massive that true to Einstein's conceptions of the universe being warped by gravity, Abell 2218 literally bends the light coming from these galaxies into what is known as a Gravitational Lens.

Planet Earth may appear to be caving-in on itself, but human disruptions are NOTHING compared to the bending of light itself by the forces present in Abell 2218. Just a thought.

Addendum WED
I mentioned that I cropped this image in the credit...but it seems IMPORTANT. What you are seeing is like looking at the cosmos through rippled cellophane or as if underwater...the galaxies of Abell 2218 producing this effect are actually just outside your view.