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Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses. A View of HST 14176+5226


Depicts: HST 14176+5226
Copyright: Kavan Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and NASA

HST 14176+5226 is the first, and brightest lens system discovered in 1995 with the Hubble telescope. This lens candidate has now been confirmed spectroscopically using large ground-based telescopes. The elliptical lensing galaxy is located 7 billion light-years away, and the lensed quasar is about 11 billion light-years distant.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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