The Cosmic Eye

Comments [0] posted: Oct 08, 2008 Greg O'Byrne

CosmicEye

Discover magazine article about it here: badastronomy @ discover.com

It's a gravity lens.

Arcs are common results of lensing. That’s what you’re seeing here; the distant galaxy image split in two, arcs surrounding the spherical galaxy between them. An eye!

Related posts: Hubble Discovers 67 more "lensed" galaxies.


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tags: [astronomy | cool thing | gravity | Hubble | light | NASA]


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