Thursday, 17 July 2014

deep sky observing - What is the line of light in galaxy cluster MACS J1206?

I have highlighted the feature I believe you are talking about. It looks like a galaxy that has been repeated (smaller green oval). There are several foreground objects that appear to be causing additional gravitational lensing (red arrows). Due to the shapes of the objects causing the lensing effect, the apparent image can be affected in many different ways, such a image duplication (multiple identical images of a galaxy, etc.), magnification, distortion, etc. The universe is massive and three-dimensional and we still don't understand that much of it yet.



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