Einstein ring, Hubble Space Telescope image

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Optical image of Einstein ring GAL-CLUS-022058s (centre), located in Fornax constellation, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Einstein rings are caused by light from two distant galaxies being diverted and bent by gravitational lensing from a massive elliptical galaxy in front of them and focused into a visible ring-like complex structure.

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Photo credit: © NASA/ESA/Hubble/Saurabh Jha, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey/L. Shatz/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: -, 0218-387, astronomical, astronomy, astrophysics, cluster, fornax, furnace, gal-clus-022058s, galactic, galaxies, galaxy, gravitational, gravity, lensed, lensing, molten, optical, pks, ring, space, universe