esahubble_opo1433d August 4th, 2014
Credit: NASA, ESA, K.-V. Tran (Texas A&M University), and K. Wong (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics)
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a region containing the most distant cosmic lens yet found, a massive elliptical galaxy whose powerful gravity is magnifying the light from a faraway galaxy behind it. In this image astronomers have subtracted the image of the giant red elliptical to show a more distant spiral galaxy. The glow of young stars makes the galaxy appear blue. The white area at upper right is probably a region of star formation. Links: NASA Press release Gravitational Lensing by Galaxy in Cluster IRC 0218 (annotated) Gravitational Lensing by Galaxy in Cluster IRC 0218 IRC 0218 Lensing Feature
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo1433d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
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