https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖤" title="Schwarzes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Schwarzes Herz"> 𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍 Sagan is backhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖤" title="Schwarzes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Schwarzes Herz">
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken"> IT& #39;S ASTROTIME!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">

WHAT& #39;S THAT?

IS IT ALIENS?

Nope, it& #39;s even cooler than that... It& #39;s gravity https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht">

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#Science #astronomy #UFOs

I saw this image (thanks @AstroRJS and @SpaceGeck) and I new I had to share it with you all.

This is an Einstein Ring - I haven& #39;t given too much detail in the video specific to this image and I recommend you check Russell& #39;s thread https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands">

https://twitter.com/AstroRJS/status/1293185785173127173?s=19
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Here is another BEAUTIFUL example of this phenomenon (called Gravitational Lensing)

This is called the "The Cheshire Cat Group of galaxies": see the two eyes and the weird smile???

Well the smile (and the other stretchy bits) are DISTANT GALAXIES https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😱" title="Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht">

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They are being stretched and distorted by the strong gravity of an object (or several), which we call the lense https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel">

Lenses can many things so long as they have strong gravity: black holes or even whole galaxies!

@NJRattenbury knows a thing or two about those https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖤" title="Schwarzes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Schwarzes Herz">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands">

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Another really cool gravitational lensing result just came out! Check out this @ESO announcementhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✨" title="Funken" aria-label="Emoji: Funken">

Why is it so cool? Because we saw a galaxy 12 BILLION light years away that wasn& #39;t NEARLY as chaotic as we thought it ought to be https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😱" title="Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht">

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Less than 2 billion years after the big bang, galaxies are not expected to be like the ones in our current Universe. But this gravitational lensing even showed us a baby galaxy with organised features similar to our Milky Way https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤩" title="Vom Star geblendet" aria-label="Emoji: Vom Star geblendet">

You can read more here:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/23/world/distant-galaxy-wolfe-disk-scn-trnd/index.html
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