* Astronomy

A nearly perfect Einstein Ring (gravitational lensing by a nearby galaxy acting as a natural telescope to focus the light from a more distant galaxy )has been found.



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Gravitational lenses have been seen many times before, but not one so complete, with a close lensing galaxy and a distant magnified galaxy.
FOR J0332.3557 is on the outskirts of the Fornax cluster,
Position (2000): RA 03h 32m 59.94s Dec 35º57' 51.

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