Wind Blows Deeply

Gravitational lensing

This entry was posted by jenn on Monday, 26 June, 2006 at

Tom posted a great Hubble photo demonstrating gravitational lensing. (To help translate the photo, imagine an invisible sphere slightly offset to the right from the big glowing star in the middle. Invisible sphere = gravity pulling on light = gravitational lensing.)

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2 Responses to “Gravitational lensing”

1. Rob

   Jun 27, 2006 at 4:51 pm

   Very interesting. I found a cool site awhile ago that has lots of interesting little astronomy tidbits like this. It is very educational, and has COMPLETELY changed my life in no way whatsoever.

   http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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2. Jenn

   Jun 27, 2006 at 9:50 pm

   I agree completely … whether it be gravitational lensing or the moons of Jupiter, the ever-so-cool knowledge fails to invade the sphere of my everyday life. Ain’t that fantastic?!

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