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Ancient eye in the sky

Light from a distant Galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy. That effect is called strong gravitational lensing. Normally a single galaxy is lensed at a time. The same foreground galaxy can -- in theory -- simultaneously lens multiple background galaxies. Eye of Horus in pseudo color. Enlarged image to the right (field of view of 23 arcseconds x 19 arcseconds) show two  arcs/rings with...

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