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Lensed quasar


Date: 25 January 2017
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: HE0435-1223
Copyright: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Suyu et al.

HE0435-1223 is among the five best lensed quasars discovered to date. The foreground galaxy creates four almost evenly distributed images of the distant quasar around it.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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