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Hubble observes shapes of more than 7000 faint background galaxies (CL0024+1654) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble observes shapes of more than 7000 faint background galaxies

July 17, 2003 · ESA/Hubble · CL0024+1654

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Five days of observations produced altogether the 39 Hubble Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images required to map the mass of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654.