Hubble Sees a Mirror Image of the Same Galaxy Thanks to Gravitational Lensing - Universe Today

Hubble Space Telescope imaged a galaxy being triply lensed by a galaxy cluster. Astronomers can observe star formation in its spiral arms.

It’s been an amazing couple of weeks for fans of gravitational lensing. JWST grabbed the headlines with a spectacular infrared view of lensing in the SMACS 0723 image, and that had everybody talking.… [+4480 chars]

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