Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Rodney (John Hopkins University, USA) and the FrontierSN team; T. Treu (University of California Los Angeles, USA), P. Kelly (University of California Berkeley, USA) and the GLASS team; J. Lotz (STScI) and the Frontier Fields team; M. Postman (STScI) and the CLASH team; and Z. Levay (STScI)

This image shows the the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223, whose light has taken over 5 billion years to reach us. Highlighted is the position where the star LS1 appeared its image magnified by a factor 2000 by gravitational microlensing. The galaxy in which the star is located can be seen three times on the sky multiplied by strong gravitational lensing.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1807c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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