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Space Photos of the Week: These Galaxies Got a Warped POV
Space photos of the week, July 17—23, 2016.
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<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-s-hubble-looks-to-the-final-frontier"> NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI)</a>
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The Hubble image unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a warping-of-space phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago. In the center of the image is the immense galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away, and surrounded by magnified images of galaxies much farther. The cluster contains approximately 100 million-million solar masses, and contains 51 confirmed galaxies and perhaps over 400 more.
