Moon, Venus and Jupiter Aligned as Smiley Face in May 2010 is a Likely Hoax

By Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter who covers a range of topics, including politics, U.S., and health news. A father of two, Jack grew up in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
February 15, 2014Updated: July 18, 2015

A viral image that’s being shared claims that the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter aligned to become a smiley face.

It claims that on May 16, 2010, the incident occurred.

Twitter user Tree Lobsters wrote that it’s “not impossible” for the alignment to have taken place.

However, the alignment didn’t happen in 2010, the user wote.

A similar image was taken on 2008 shows an alignment in a similar manner, but far less striking.

It’s not clear where the “smiley face” image is from.

When one does a backwards Google image search, the only result is a Pinterest account.

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