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Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses

Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses


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Copyright: Kavan Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and NASA

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope serendipitous survey of the sky has uncovered exotic patterns, rings, arcs and crosses that are all optical mirages produced by a gravitational lens, nature's equivalent of having giant magnifying glass in space.

Shown are the top 10 lens candidates uncovered in the deepest 100 Hubble fields. Hubble's sensitivity and high resolution allow it to see faint and distant lenses that cannot be detected with ground-based telescopes whose images are blurred by Earth's atmosphere.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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