Uh-oh, Frodo

I don't think we need a retinal scan to recognize this picture from NASA as the Eye of Sauron, which does not bode well for those foolish enough to have looked upon it directly:

"The Eye: that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable."

One can only hope that "Hubble Space Telescope" doesn't come out "palantír" when you translate it into in Elvish.

Alternatively, this could be The Mote in God's Eye, in which case I for one welcome our new three-armed, furry Motie overlords...