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Hubble Frontier Fields view of Abell 2744 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble Frontier Fields view of Abell 2744

October 22, 2015 · ESA/Hubble · Sculptor

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Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster, was the first of six targets within the Frontier Fields programme, which together have produced the deepest images of gravitational lensing ever made. The cluster is thought to have a very violent history, having formed from a cosmic pile-up of multiple galaxy clusters.