# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BTt46V8Fo6Z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736013-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-05-05T16:15:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

The Hubble Space Telescope has some amazing superpowers, specifically when it comes to observing innumerable galaxies flung across time and space. A stunning example is a galaxy cluster called Abell 370. Located approximately 4 billion light-years away, this galaxy cluster contains an assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. 
Photographed in a combination of visible and near-infrared light, the brightest and largest galaxies are the yellow-white, massive, elliptical galaxies containing many hundreds of billions of stars EACH! Spiral galaxies have younger populations of stars and are bluish. Mysterious-looking arcs of blue light are distorted images of remote galaxies behind the cluster. The cluster acts as a huge lens in space that magnifies and stretches images of background galaxies like a funhouse mirror. 
Credits: NASA/ESA/STScI 
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spothubble, spacetelescope, solarsystem, esa, telescope, stars, light, lightyear, galaxycluster, nasa, hubble, space, gravity, galaxy, nasahubble, cluster, galaxies, universe

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