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.

Hubble Images an Einstein Cross of Quasars

Hubble’s Faint Object Camera provided astronomers with a detailed view of this multi-imaged quasar, which is a classic example of an Einstein Cross. The quasar is about 8 billion light-years away. The central galaxy, whose gravity is creating the lens, is 20 times closer to Earth, some 400 million light-years away.

Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI
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