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by Liohina
Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:06 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens (2013 Jan 02)
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Re: APOD: The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens (2013 Jan 02

What about that faint nebula-like image, shaped like a barred-spiral galaxy, in front of everything else in the picture? Is that a cloud in our own galaxy, and artifact of the photography, or what? Also, there was an article some years ago - in Scientific American, if I remember correctly - which ex...