# @hubbleesa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwUkzTHBM9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65013733-hubbleesa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/fe0a5f7935.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-04-30T12:00:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hubble Space Telescope (@hubbleesa) — https://gondola.cc/hubbleesa

## Caption

Our #HubbleTopImage features a lensing cluster 🔎⁠
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The giant galaxy cluster in the centre of this image contains so much dark matter that its gravity bends the light of more distant objects. This means that for very distant galaxies in the background, the cluster’s gravitational field acts as a sort of magnifying glass, bending and concentrating the distant object’s light towards the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.⁠
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These gravitational lenses are one tool astronomers can use to extend Hubble’s vision beyond what it would normally be capable of observing. This way some of the very first galaxies in the Universe can be studied by astronomers!⁠
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For more information check the link in bio.⁠
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📷 NASA, ESA, J. Richard (CRAL) and J.-P. Kneib (LAM). Acknowledgement: Marc Postman (STScI)⁠
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#ESA #Hubble

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hubble, hubbletopimage, esa

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