Gravitational Lensing Illustration

A Sneak Peek at the First Billion Years of the Universe: Galaxy cluster fields extend the reach of the Great Observatories by allowing astronomers to use a technique called gravitational lensing, which magnifies background galaxies that are otherwise presently unobservable.

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