This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Gravitational lensing. Optical image of the cluster of galaxies Abell 370. The thin arcs and lenticular objects are distorted images of background galaxies created by the gravitational field of the cluster. This image was made with the Very Large Telescope 'Antu' at the Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

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