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24-11-2017, 11:24 AM
The Hubble Space Telescope team have released an image (https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1747a/)of the
highly-gravitationally lensed galaxy which has been nicknamed "The Cosmic Snake".
The Cosmic Snake is lensed by a galaxy cluster designated MACSJ1206.2-0847.
Photo here :-
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1747a/
Clumpy regions within The Cosmic Snake are the subject of a 27 Nov 2017
paper in Nature by Cava et. al
Paper here (subscription required)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0295-x
A Press Release appears at the University of Geneva :-
https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2017/un-serpent-cosmique-trahit-la-structure-des-galaxies-lointaines/
highly-gravitationally lensed galaxy which has been nicknamed "The Cosmic Snake".
The Cosmic Snake is lensed by a galaxy cluster designated MACSJ1206.2-0847.
Photo here :-
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1747a/
Clumpy regions within The Cosmic Snake are the subject of a 27 Nov 2017
paper in Nature by Cava et. al
Paper here (subscription required)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0295-x
A Press Release appears at the University of Geneva :-
https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2017/un-serpent-cosmique-trahit-la-structure-des-galaxies-lointaines/