Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
2 Feb 2012, 18:00 UTC
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A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of
gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy
cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble's view of the distant background galaxy,
which lies nearly 10 billion light-years away, is significantly more
detailed than could ever be achieved without the help of the gravitational
lens.
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