Composite of Gemini North and ALMA images of "Shadow Blaster" (IMAGE)

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Composite of Gemini North and ALMA images of "Shadow Blaster"

Caption

Left: the field around the gravitationally lensed galaxy nicknamed “Shadow Blaster.” This galaxy lies 11 billion light-years away and sits just behind the bright red galaxy at the center of this image.

Center: a close-up of the gravitational lens in which the red foreground galaxy is causing the light from the more distant Shadow Blaster galaxy to bend around it, creating multiple distorted images of the galaxy that appear as yellow arcs.

Right: a close-up of the gravitationally lensed Shadow Blaster galaxy.

These images were captured with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab.

Credit

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Acknowledgment: PI: Yuji Urata (MITOS Science Co., LTD.)

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