Thursday, July 8, 2010

BBC News - Herschel telescope spies galaxy with cosmic 'zoom lens'

BBC News - Herschel telescope spies galaxy with cosmic 'zoom lens': "By viewing a huge cluster of galaxies, Herschel has been able to study in detail an even more distant object.

This is possible because the gravity of the foreground cluster magnifies the light of the background galaxy."

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