Hubble View of Sunburst Arc with Gravitational Lensing (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble View of Sunburst Arc with Gravitational Lensing

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This recent picture from Hubble shows a galaxy nicknamed the Sunburst Arc that has been split into a kaleidoscope illusion of no fewer than 12 images formed by a massive foreground cluster of galaxies 4.6 billion light-years away.

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NASA, ESA and E. Rivera-Thorsen (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics Oslo, Norway)

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