Image of Cheshire Cat gravitationally lensed galaxies

Hubble Space Telescope/Chandra X-ray Observatory

Image of Cheshire Cat gravitationally lensed galaxies

Image of Cheshire Cat gravitationally lensed galaxies produced by combining Chandra X-ray data with Hubble Space Telescope optical data. Gemini spectroscopy provided critical spectroscopic data for characterizing the foreground lensing cluster and understanding its history and likely fate as a "fossil group."

About the Image

ID: geminiann15015a
Type: Observation

About the Object

Name: Cheshire Cat

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