Gravitational Lensing

Watch Live Webcast: Space Warps

Want to join the hunt for new galaxies? During a special G+ Hangout today, June 5, a team of astronomers…

12 years ago

Early Galaxies Churned Out Stars Like Crazy

Talk about an assembly line! Some early-stage galaxies created stars thousands of times faster than our Milky Way does today, according…

12 years ago

NASA Finds a Space Invader

Pew pew! NASA has found a Space Invader, but they won’t be activating any laser cannons to shoot it down.…

12 years ago

Now Even Further: Ancient Galaxy is Latest Candidate for Most Distant

It seems that every few months or so comes a new discovery of a new “most distant galaxy ever found.”…

12 years ago

Early Galaxy Found from the Cosmic ‘Dark Ages’

In the big image at left, the many galaxies of a massive cluster called MACS J1149+2223 dominate the scene. Gravitational…

12 years ago

Mysterious Arc of Light Spotted with Spitzer Telescope

From a JPL press release: Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble…

12 years ago

Hubble Captures Giant Lensed Galaxy Arc

[/caption] Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image - a…

13 years ago

Distant Invisible Galaxy Could be Made Up Entirely of Dark Matter

[/caption] Astronomers can’t see it but they know it’s out there from the distortions caused by its gravity. That statement…

13 years ago

Microlensing Study Says Every Star in the Milky Way has Planets

[/caption] How common are planets in the Milky Way? A new study using gravitational microlensing suggests that every star in…

13 years ago

Quadruply Lensed Dwarf Galaxy 12.8 Billion Light Years Away

[/caption] Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for astronomers that allows them to explore distant galaxies in far more detail…

13 years ago