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Pictures: Kavan Ratnatunga (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) and NASA |

A Mirage

Hubble finds a mirage. Shimmering in space, distorted images of far-away galaxies hover in arcs, crosses and other patterns, their light squeezed by the gravitational force of a more massive object.


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