What's it all about? The universal question. And to see a question mark in the universe seems perfect.
That's how we see this question mark in the photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The focus of the picture is is a pair of actively forming stars. But down in the corner is the unmistakable shape of a question mark.
And the answer? "It's "all about projection," Garcia Marin explains. She says the reason we see the galaxies in a question mark shape is a result of both the angle with which they have encountered each other and our own point of view."
The "composite of a half-dozen infrared images — went viral on social media sites like X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit after the European Space Agency (one of the three agencies behind the telescope) shared it late last month, prompting the ESA to clarify weeks later that "it's not a hoax."
And that's the story. But there are lots of answers on Reddit:
"Finally we have found the question for that 42"
"The riddler strikes again?"
"I don't know what it is but it was obviously put there by the same creatures that built the face shaped mountain on Mars."
“It’s a white hole.” - The Cat
"Maybe some galactic Stranger and Freak mission from Galaxy Theft Auto."
"If we knew, it wouldn’t be a question mark…"
Here's one of the Fall Berry bushes - Beautyberry (Callicarpa).
