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 lens. Optical image of a galaxy cluster 1ES 0657-55 in enhanced colours. In the upper right is a thin arc (green), the distorted image of a more distant object 'bent' by the gravity of the cluster. The image was made using the Very Large Telescope 'Antu' at the Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

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