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Galaxy clusters Abell 370 - Abell 370 cluster of galaxies with gravitational arcs - This galaxy cluster is located about 4 billion light years from Earth in the constellation of the Whale. This image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope shows gravitational arcs among galaxies. These mirages are deformed images of farther galaxies located behind the cluster. The galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity
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Galaxy clusters Abell 370 - Abell 370 cluster of galaxies with gravitational arcs - This galaxy cluster is located about 4 billion light years from Earth in the constellation of the Whale. This image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope shows gravitational arcs among galaxies. These mirages are deformed images of farther galaxies located behind the cluster. The galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. Photographed in a combination of visible and near-infrared light, the immense cluster is a rich mix of galaxy shapes. The brightest and largest galaxies in the cluster are the yellow-white, massive, elliptical galaxies containing many hundreds of billions of stars each. Spiral galaxies - like our Milky Way - have younger populations of stars and are bluish. Entangled among the galaxies are mysterious-looking arcs of blue light. These are actually distorted images of remote galaxies behind the cluster. These far-flung galaxies are too faint for Hubble to see directly. Instead, the cluster acts as a huge lens in space that magnifies and stretches images of background galaxies like a funhouse mirror. The massive gravitational field of the foreground cluster produces this phenomenon. The collective gravity of all the stars and other matter trapped inside the cluster warps space and affects light traveling through the cluster, toward Earth. Nearly a hundred distant galaxies have multiple images caused by the lensing effect. The most stunning example is “” the Dragon,””” an extended feature that is probably several duplicated images of a single background spiral galaxy stretched along an arc. Abell 370 is located approximately 4 billion light years away in the constellation Cetus, the Sea Monster

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astronomy / bone / star / cosmology / astronomy / galaxy / 2017 / hst / star / Novapix / hubble space telescope / astronomy / galaxy / Galaxy Clusters / Elliptical Galaxy / Galaxy Elliptical / Galaxy Cluster / Gravitational Lens / Far Galaxies / cosmology / Distant Galaxies / Gravitational Lens / Abell 370

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