Galaxy Cluster MACS j1149.5+223 and a Supernova 4 Times Over (IMAGE)

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Galaxy Cluster MACS j1149.5+223 and a Supernova 4 Times Over

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This image shows the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223, whose light took over 5 billion years to reach us.

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NASA, ESA, S. Rodney (John Hopkins University, USA) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu (University of California Los Angeles, USA), P. Kelly (University of California Berkeley, USA) and the GLASS team; J. Lotz (STScI) and the Frontier Fields team; M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH team; and Z. Levay (STScI)

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