Imaging recource: The universe’s natural zoom lens: Taking a look back to a billion years after the Big Bang

    The Hubble Space Telescope's latest target in its exploration of new frontiers is the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This cluster is possibly the "home to billions of strange new worlds," according to the Hubble team. Due to its great distance from the telescope, viewing the center of the first image below gives us a look four billion years into the past. However, due to gravitational lensing the image also gives us a look further back than that, at what are potentially the first galaxies generated in the universe. While I highly...
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