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This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of some distant galaxies) is...
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and...
This artist impression shows how photons from the early universe are deflected by the gravitational lensing effect...
Warping occurs naturally in nature in a phenomenon called strong gravitational lensing as shown in this image...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy cluster, SDSS J1038+4849, that appears to have...
This artist concept depicts an ultra-dense dead star, called a white dwarf, passing in front of a small red star....
Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar (an extremely...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745. This is one of six...
This picture showcases a gravitational lensing system called SDSS J0928+2031. Astronomers are using NASA/ESA Hubble...
In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 —...
This plot shows data obtained from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope doesn’t usually get much assistance from its celestial subjects — but to take...
NASA/ESA Hubble Release Date: March 25, 2010 This image shows a smoothed reconstruction of the total (mostly dark)...
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4...
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope....
Astronomers have discovered one of the most distant planets known, a gas giant about 13,000 light-years from Earth,...
This artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc...
Two's company, but three might not always be a crowd — at least in space. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space...
Image release August 19, 2010 An international team of astronomers using gravitational lensing observations from the...
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a beautiful spiral galaxy known as PGC 54493, located in the...
NASA image release April 12, 2011 Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe,...
This new Hubble image showcases a remarkable variety of objects at different distances from us, extending back over...
The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to...
The gravitational field surrounding this massive cluster of galaxies, Abell 68, acts as a natural lens in space to...