Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3079
Gravitationally lensed quasar (and NGC 3079), pdfermat
Gravitationally lensed quasar (and NGC 3079)
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Gravitationally lensed quasar (and NGC 3079)

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My main focus with this image was not the galaxy NGC 3079, but the quasar "QSO 0957+561 A/B". It is a quasar around 8 billion light years distant, and is being gravitationally lensed such that it appears in two places at once from our vantage point. Version B has the "twin" quasar marked at the yellow arrow.

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Gravitationally lensed quasar (and NGC 3079), pdfermat