gravitational lensing
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Scientists Used Galaxies As Magnifying Lenses To See Individual Stars Billions Of Light-Years Away
When you look up into the night sky, you see a lot of stars – but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy. With the help of some spacetime-warping science, though, our eyes can now peer much deeper into distant space.
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There’s Something Very Strange Surrounding This Galaxy
Meet the Eye of Horus. It’s a newly discovered galaxy system that’s hiding something incredible in those fuzzy swirls of light circling it: A way of looking back into even further and older galaxies.