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NASA's Hubble charts path for Roman with gravitational lenses

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the lower-right corner, where a distant background galaxy is being magnified and distorted by the gravity of a closer galaxy.

NASA's Hubble charts path for Roman with gravitational lenses
Image: Phys.org
A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the lower-right corner, where a distant background galaxy is being magnified and distorted by the gravity of a closer galaxy.

Originally published at Phys.org

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