esahubble_opo9918f May 13th, 1999
Credit: Kavan Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and NASA/ESA
HST 14176+5226 is the first, and brightest lens system discovered in 1995 with the Hubble telescope. This lens candidate has now been confirmed spectroscopically using large ground-based telescopes. The elliptical lensing galaxy is located 7 billion light-years away, and the lensed quasar is about 11 billion light-years distant.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9918f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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