Close-up of gravitational lenses with annotations

An extremely large gravitational lens around galaxy cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9 with annotations indicating which galaxies have been distorted as a result of the galaxy cluster's warping of spacetime.

Credit:

DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani, R. Colombari & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)

About the Image

Id:noirlab2325c
Type:Collage
Release date:Sept. 28, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Related releases:noirlab2325
Size:2209 x 1603 px

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