Two teams of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three distant exploding stars that have been magnified by the immense gravity of foreground galaxy clusters, which act like "cosmic lenses". These supernovae are the first of their type ever to be observed magnified in this way and they offer astronomers a powerful tool to check the prescription of these massive lenses.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1409/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
1 May 2014
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