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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Astronomy Tuesday


This wonderful image from the Hubble shows the effects of gravitational lensing, as the gravity from the large clusters of galaxies in the foreground distort and amplify the light from the galaxies behind them, making it possible to observe objects that would otherwise be too faint or too small.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, M. Gladders et al.
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

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