Sunday, March 25, 2012

Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo [from space.com]

Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo [from space.com]


The distant galaxy is 10 billion light-years away from Earth and is seen through a so-called gravitational lens created by a massive cluster of closer galaxies located about 5 billion light-years away. What gravitational lens are is explained using the image above.

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 Full story here at space.com

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