Pan: Seeing Triple
This video from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. Due to Gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of the same supernova-hosting galaxy, which you can see in closer detail here. Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend the path of light travelling past or through it, almost like a vast lens. In this case, the lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located around 3.2 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius.
Credit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Kelly
Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
About the Video
Id: | potm2302a | |
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Release date: | 28 February 2023, 06:00 | |
Duration: | 30 s | |
Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
Category: | Picture of the Month |
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