MACS0416: A Galaxy Cluster That Bends the View

Combined Hubble and Webb image of MACS0416 with colorful galaxies and curved gravitationally lensed arcs.

Greetings, fellow explorers, Some space photographs give us a single shape to recognize. This one keeps the eye moving. Small spirals, glowing ovals, red specks, and narrow arcs fill the darkness, each offering somewhere else to look. The field around MACS0416 invites a question: how much can be happening in one small patch of sky? […]

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