A cosmic lens is giving scientists a glimpse at distant galaxies never observed before.
A new photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a beautiful galaxy cluster with so much mass that it actually magnifies the light of the more distant galaxies behind it. This “gravitational lens” allows the Hubble to see far-away galaxies usually invisible to humanity.
The gravitational lens “allows Hubble to see galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to observe and makes it possible to search for, and study, the very first generation of galaxies in the Universe,” Hubble public affairs said in a statement. Read more…
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