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Cosmic telescope effect finds Universe's brightest galaxies
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured close-up views of the universe's brightest infrared galaxies, 10,000 times brighter than Milky Way. The images were captured using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where light from a distant star is bent by another star's gravity magnifying it like a telescope before it reaches Earth. Lensing helps find distant exoplanets and stars.
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