A team of astronomers led by the Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a lens of galactic proportions. Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the scientists saw a supernova not once, but four times by using the gravity of a distant cluster of galaxies to act as a natural lens that magnified and quadrupled the image of the exploding star. .. Continue Reading Astronomers see supernova explosion using galaxies as lenses
Section: Space
Tags: Australian National University, Gravity, Hubble, Lenses, relativity, Supernova
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