Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images

Many of the brightest blue images are of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. Cluster galaxies here typically appear yellow and — together with the cluster’s dark matter — act as a gravitational lens..

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Fascinating!

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One Comment on "Giant Cluster Bends, Breaks Images"

  1. metatron says:

    Fully, like check out the pretty colours, stellar-like, space is really like BIG!

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