Einstein Cross (IMAGE)
Caption
The many red galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope image are members of the massive MACS J1149.6+2223 cluster, which strongly bends and magnifies the light of galaxies behind it. A large cluster galaxy (center of the box) has split the magnified light from an exploding background supernova into four yellow images (arrows), which form an Einstein Cross.
Credit
Image courtesy of Z. Levay at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute and ESA. Patrick Kelly and Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley contributed to the discovery and analysis.
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