File:Lensed Galaxy Arc in Galaxy Cluster RCS2 032727-132623.jpg
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English: Thanks to the presence of a natural "zoom lens" in space, this Hubble image provides a close-up look at a distant "magnified" galaxy.
This is a striking example of gravitational lensing, where the gravitational field of a foreground galaxy bends and amplifies the light of a more distant background galaxy. In this image the light from a distant galaxy, nearly 10 billion light-years away, has been warped into a nearly 90-degree arc of light by the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623, located 5 billion light-years away. The background galaxy's image is over three times brighter than typically lensed galaxies. For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2012-08 Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Rigby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), K. Sharon (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago), and M. Gladders and E. Wuyts (University of Chicago) |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NASA Hubble at https://flickr.com/photos/144614754@N02/31763831107 (archive). It was reviewed on 26 February 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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