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A cluster of yellow galaxies with hundreds of background galaxies. The image include arcs that are distorted images of background galaxies.

MACS J0416.1-2403 (Frontier Fields)

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. This giant cluster acts as a powerful natural lens by bending and magnifying the light of far-more-distant objects behind it. MACS J0416 was found to magnify the light of a tiny galaxy that existed about 400 million years after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago. The object was nicknamed Tayna, which means "first-born" in Aymara, a language spoken in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica de Chile)
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