Gravitational Lensing of Distant Star-Forming Galaxies Space Wallpaper (Schematic)

Monday, March 18, 2013 - 10:09 in Astronomy & Space

This space wallpaper is a schematic representing how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy known as Einstein rings.

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