Discovery of an Unusual Gravitational Lens

Caltech press release: plain text file or link * EPFL press release * Georges Meylan YouTube video * Keck press release
Discovery paper: PDF file or astro-ph archive link

Image credit: F. Courbin, S. G. Djorgovski, G. Meylan, et al., Caltech / EPFL / WMKO

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Image of the quasar SDSS J0013+1523 (blue), bracketed by the lensed images of the background galaxy (red), obtained with the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10-m telescope and Adaptive Optics.

The same, but without the labels:

An illustration of the gravitational lensing:

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For more information, please contact:

George Djorgovski,
ph. +1 (626) 395-4415
email: george @ astro.caltech.edu

Learn more about Gravitational lensing * Quasars * Adaptive optics

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