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Hubble Captures Quadruple Image of Ancient Exploding Star

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and a naturally occurring cosmic magnifying lens captured surprising multiple images of the same exploded ancient star, research published on Thursday shows. The four images captured by Hubble were caused by light taking different paths around a massive galaxy cluster located between the exploded star and the Earth-orbiting telescope. The cluster's gravity causes passing photons, or particles of light, to bend, a phenomenon predicted 100...

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