Webb image shows multiple galaxies appearing four or more times in one cluster
NASAWebb says gravitational lensing in galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300 produces four or more images of the same distant galaxy—and that researchers have spotted this more than once in the visible conversation for the first time.
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NASAWebb says the cluster’s golden galaxies bend and magnify light from more distant orange galaxies, creating multiple images of them. Researchers have spotted four or more images of the same galaxy more than once in the visible conversation for the first time, it says. NASAWebb also says Webb’s sensitivity to redder light reveals hundreds more galaxies in the scene than Hubble’s 2014 image.
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