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In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 —...
Two bright orange galaxies seem to form eyes, and streaks of curved, bent and magnified light form the circle of a face and a happy smile. A smaller bright galaxy serves as the nose in this smiley face. Other galaxies dot the picture.
The powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image is...
A field of galaxies in white and gold on a black background. An expanded view of the gravitationally lensed supernova is just left of center.
The thin blue bull's-eye patterns in these eight Hubble Space Telescope images appear like neon signs floating over reddish-white blobs....
Eight images (two rows, four in each row) of amorphous elliptical galaxies ringed by blue-white light.
Galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. It is located approximately...
A galaxy cluster that is lensing more distant galaxies into arcs. Curved S-shaped trails of asteroids.
Now you see them, now you don't. Three views of the same supernova appear in the 2016 image on the...
This Hubble Space Telescope image, taken in 1994, shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the...
Spots of light that are galaxies in this image. Some of the galaxies appear to be stretched due to gravitational lensing. Three very bright orange spots of light near the center in a row.
The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange...
A black background dotted with galaxies. Image center holds a cluster of galaxies with a distinct arc nearly surrounding it.
This image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 was part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined...
A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion...
Hubble image of a lensing galaxy cluster, showing a vast number of galaxies mostly concentrated in the center of the image on a north-south axis. Streaks in the image are lensed galaxies much further away than the cluster. An inset image of a blurry red object indicates the location of the faintest galaxy.
This interesting galaxy imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is one of a group of galaxies called Luminous Red Galaxies....
Black background dotted with galaxies. A reddish galaxy at image center with a bluish-white ring curving almost completely around it.
This extraordinary image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy cluster Abell 2813 (also known as ACO 2813)...
Hubble image of galaxy cluster abell 2813 (also known as aco 2813)
Large galaxy clusters contain both dark matter and normal matter. The immense gravity of all this material warps the space...
Lower left corner: Hubble sits looking toward the upper-right corner where there is a spiral galaxy. Between the two is an image of a large galaxy cluster. Lines drawn from the spiral at upper-right to Hubble illustrate the gravitational lens created by the galaxy cluster.
Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) took this unprecedented image of the cosmos. Hubble peered straight through the center of...
Bright yellow-white galaxies fill the field of view. A few foreground stars dot the scene in the upper half of the image. Faint arcs of gravitationally lensed background galaxies.
Hubble observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies...
Large sample galaxies of different sizes and shapes, experiencing a "lens"-like distortion.
Hubble’s Faint Object Camera provided astronomers with a detailed view of this multi-imaged quasar, which is a classic example of...
Five bright points of blue-white light. The center point is the galaxy. The four other points are above, below, and left, and right of the center.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the...
Galaxies dot a black sky. a faint red arc holds three dots. the two outer dots are a lensed star cluster, the center dot is the farthest known star, dubbed Earendel.
Dr. Brian Welch explains the discovery of Earendel while outlining how important Hubble is to exploring the mysteries of the...
Icarus, whose official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, is one of the farthest individual stars ever seen. It...
image of stars and galaxies with two insets