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Hubble's Top Ten Gravitational Lenses. A View of HST 16309+8230


Depicts: HST 16309+8230
Copyright: Kavan Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and NASA

HST 16309+8230 is an edge-on disk-like galaxy (blue arc) which has been significantly distorted by the redder lensing elliptical galaxy.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
16-Mar-2026 23:15 UT

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