Collection: Highly probable lens, with backup observations

Images that have been researched and remain of active interest.

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by KhalilaRedBird
http://blog.zooniverse.org/2014/01/09/stargazing-live-the-results-are-in/
"The Space Warps team have produced a model of it and currently think the background (red) galaxy is at redshift of about 2, which means the light has taken more than 10 billion years to reach us! You can see the comparison of the model and the data below. There’s a chance it could be further away but we’ll keep you posted. The nearer object (white/yellow) is about 2 billion light years away and has a mass of 100 billion times that of our Sun – which makes it about the same size as our own galaxy.:"

Posted January 10, 2014 4:23 PM
by KhalilaRedBird
#lens

Posted January 10, 2014 4:21 PM