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Gravitational Lens and Quasar PG1115+080 (PG 1115+080 , QSO B1115+0802) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Gravitational Lens and Quasar PG1115+080

October 26, 1998 · ESA/Hubble · PG 1115+080 , QSO B1115+0802

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In this NICMOS image, the four quasar images and the lens galaxy have been subtracted, revealing a nearly complete ring of infrared light. This ring is the stretched and amplified starlight of the galaxy that contains the quasar , some 8 billion light years away. ( NASA /Space Telescope Science Institute).