Hubble Image of Galaxies (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Image of Galaxies

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Entangled among the galaxies in this Hubble image are mysterious-looking arcs of blue light. These are actually distorted images of remote galaxies behind the cluster. The collective gravity of all the normal and dark matter trapped inside the cluster warps space-time and affects light traveling through the cluster toward Earth.

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NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI)

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