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Most Distant Gravitational Lens J1000+0221
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo shows the most distant gravitational lens yet discovered. The glow at the center of the image is the central regions of a normal galaxy. By chance it is precisely aligned with a much more remote, young, star-forming galaxy. The light from th...
- Date
- Jan 1, 2013
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2013-48-3262-image
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope photo shows the most distant gravitational lens yet discovered. The glow at the center of the image is the central regions of a normal galaxy. By chance it is precisely aligned with a much more remote, young, star-forming galaxy. The light from the more distant object is bent around the nearer object by the closer galaxy's strong gravitational pull to form a ring of multiple images.
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. van der Wel (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)Image Details
| About The Object | |
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| Object Name | J1000+0221 |
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