Hubble's Galaxy-Observing Superpowers

  • Released Thursday, May 4, 2017
  • Updated Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 12:01PM
  • ID: 12599

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Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

The Hubble Space Telescope is keeping watch over many, many galaxies using the combined superpowers of its incredible optics and a quirk of nature called gravitational lensing.

The full image package for galaxy cluster Abell 370 is available on the HubbleSite.

Learn more about the Frontier Fields program at http://www.stsci.edu/hst/campaigns/frontier-fields/


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