Gravitational lensing is used by astronomers to study very distant and very faint galaxies. (IMAGE)

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Gravitational lensing is used by astronomers to study very distant and very faint galaxies.

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Gravitational lensing is used by astronomers to study very distant and very faint galaxies.

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Image courtesy of NASA, ESA & L. Calçada

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