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Gravitational Lens and Quasar PG1115+080

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In this NICMOS image, the four quasar images and the lens galaxy have been subtracted, revealing a nearly complete ring of infrared light. This ring is the stretched and amplified starlight of the galaxy that contains the quasar, some 8 billion light years away. (NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute).

Credit: Christopher D. Impey (University of Arizona)

 

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Id:opo9837c
Object:PG 1115+080, QSO B1115+0802
Type:Quasar/AGN/Black Hole, Cosmology
Instru-ment:NICMOS
Width:341
Height:432

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