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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a breathtaking new deep field image of the galaxy cluster Abell S1063, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of a galaxy cluster so massive that it serves a gravitational ...
In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...
The James Webb space telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from ...
Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to chart the evolution of galaxies since the Big Bang.
The galaxy cluster Abell 370, a gravitational lens 4 billion light-years away. Image: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) A light source in space originally believed to be a galaxy ...
Now, Slava Turyshev, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, is trying to harness one of these gravitational lenses closer to home, using our sun. In a new paper posted to the pre-print server ...
Credit: ESA Hiding amongst all those millions of galaxies are rare phenomena called gravitational lenses or “Einstein rings,” named as such because they prove Albert Einstein’s prediction ...
Astronomers have found an incredible gravitational lens. Thanks to a chance alignment, a foreground cluster of galaxies has magnified the light of not one, but seven background galaxies ...
We can create gravitational lenses where the gravity of a massive object can bend all the light that comes near it and send it to a focal point where you can just sit and enjoy the magnified image ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that ...
This sparkling stunner brings astronomers one step closer to examining Cosmic Dawn, when the universe was just a few million ...