Gemini North image of the field around "Shadow Blaster" (IMAGE)

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Gemini North image of the field around "Shadow Blaster"

Caption

This image shows 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. The red foreground galaxy acts like a cosmic magnifying glass, enlarging and distorting the image of the more distant Shadow Blaster galaxy behind it.

This image was captured by 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/ 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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