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They get the sharpest photo of distant galaxies

The Hubble telescope does not stop providing information about the history of the universe. In one of his latest images, he has obtained the best photo of some of the most distant and oldest galaxies, some 12,000 million light years away, thanks to the fact that the Abell 2744 cluster or 'Pandora cluster' has functioned as a kind of natural telescope gigantic.

This fantastic and astronomically exceptional image was taken thanks to the 'Pandora Cluster' having functioned as a gravitational lens . Basically, the light from a distant object, passing through a closer large mass, is amplified, acting as a kind of natural super telescope. In fact, according to NASA, the background galaxies increase in size up to 10 or 20 times larger than they would normally appear. This fact allows Hubble to capture these galaxies that are located more than 12,000 million light years away, that is, shortly after the Big Bang (about 13,700 million years ago).

The next step in investigating the background galaxies and the history of our universe will be to combine this image with those obtained by the Spitzer telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope. In this way you will get more information about the evolution of galaxies and one of the most important enigmas in the universe, black holes.

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