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NASA’s Hubble Offers Cosmic Sampler of Targets for Roman

According to reporting by NASA Space & Missions, A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

By USA NOW News Desk, National Editorial Bureau
NASA’s Hubble Offers Cosmic Sampler of Targets for Roman
A nine-panel image of a variety of gravitational lenses, each a variation of a bright core with lensed arcs around the core.
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According to reporting by NASA Space & Missions, A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein, occurs when the gravity of a massive foreground object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies, bends, warps, and magnifies the light from a more distant background object. The effect is similar to that of a giant lens in space that allows astronomers to view objects much farther away than any telescope could see on its own.

The lenses in this image formed from the precise alignment of a distant background galaxy with the mass of a foreground galaxy, creating distorted and magnified images of the background galaxy that appear as arcs around the foreground galaxy.

Astronomers will use these observations of a large and varied population of gravitational lenses to construct lens models that will help determine how much mass is in the lensing system’s foreground galaxy – and potentially prove or dispel a theory about dark matter. Astronomers study the amount of distortion of the lensed background galaxies to determine the quantity and distribution of mass in the foreground galaxy, including its invisible dark matter.

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    A gallery of gravitational lenses captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases the diversity of this cosmic phenomenon and lays the groundwork for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roma

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