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Compass Image for J0439+1634

Compass Image for J0439+1634
  • Release Date
    January 9, 2019
  • Science Release
    NASA’s Hubble Helps Astronomers Uncover the Brightest Quasar in the Early Universe
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  • Credit
    NASA, ESA, and X. Fan (University of Arizona)

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J0439+1634

J0439+1634

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a very distant quasar (at right) that has been magnified and split into three images by the effects of the gravitational field of a foreground galaxy (left). The crosses mark the centers of each quasar image. The quasar would have gone...

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a very distant quasar (at right) that has been magnified and split into three images by the effects of the gravitational field of a foreground galaxy (left). The quasar would have gone undetected if not for the power of gravitational...

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Mar 28, 2025
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