NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy cluster nearly nine billion light-years away in the constellation Draco, as well as its surroundings.
peered into the center of a vast galaxy cluster in a beautiful new image.
The European Space Agency said the cosmic giant – called eMACS J1823.1+7822 – can be identified by the distortions in space-time surrounding it. Gravitational lensing occurs when a celestial object has such a massive gravitational pull that it warps time and space around it, bending the light from a more distant object and magnifying it. A cluster of large galaxies, surrounded by various stars and smaller galaxies on a dark background.
The agency said the cluster had caused a sufficient curvature of space-time to bend the path of light and cause background galaxies to appear distorted into streaks and arcs of light. Other galaxies can be seen surrounding the cluster, as well as foreground stars with signatory diffraction spikes. In this handout from NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope drifts through space in a picture taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during Hubble's second servicing mission in 1997.
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