2021 October 17 - The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 17/10/2021

In today's image, we see a gravitational lens known as the Einstein Cross. This consists of multiple images of a very distant quasar which have been created by the gravitation field of the intervening galaxy acting as a lens. 

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