space images - Abell 2218

in #space • 9 years ago

Abell 2218 

Abell 2218 is a cluster of galaxies about 2 billion light years away in the constellation Draco. Abell 2218 was used as a gravitational lens to discover the most distant known object in the universe as of 2004.

 Abell 2218 a galaxy some 13 billion years old, is seen from Earth as it would have been just 750 million years after the Big Bang.


image credit https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9514a/



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