NASA’s Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Out Image of Distant Galaxy
11 Jan 2018, 15:15 UTC
NASA, ESA, B. Salmon (STScI)
As powerful as NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes are, they need a little help from nature in seeking out the farthest, and hence earliest galaxies that first appeared in the universe after the big bang. This help comes from a natural zoom lens in the universe, formed by the warping of space by intense gravitational fields.
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