In  June NASA released several new images from the massive telescope, including one depicting stars in the Vela Constellation. Alongside showing two stars, collectively known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in their early stages of development, the image caught something else — a rogue, red question mark lurking nearby.

Though the quizzical formation is “probably a pair of galaxies in the background which are merging” as Dr. Christopher Britt, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told IGN, a handful of tin-foil-hat sporting Redditors had a different idea on the question mark’s quandary, interpreting it as a simulation theory “Easter egg.”

“It’s a simulation, but the universe isn’t meant to render that far in advance,” wrote u/Clerk18 on one of the several Reddit threads detailing the discovery.

“That's it. We are 100% in a simulation,” added u/HereComesBullet68.

Though they then offered a word of praise to the simulation’s designers — “well done, overlords,” they wrote — fellow Redditor u/FlavorMatters believed these compliments could soon be paid in person. “This is all a simulation, we are really like really close to breaking thru to the matrix,” they speculated.

But these wild theories may not be entirely baseless. To Redditor u/Zoner1501, the rogue punctuation wasn’t entirely unheard of, serving as an uncanny reminder of gaming with a wonky graphics card.

“I had a computer that did stuff like this on random textures in a game. It turns out I needed a new graphics card,” they wrote before asking “When was the last time they replaced the hardware on this simulation?”

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