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Hubble finds double Einstein ring

Started by Mike, Jan 11, 2008, 10:21:28

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10-Jan-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string.


http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html
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