IRC 0218

id: irc-0218-235-11520048
title: IRC 0218
text: The galaxy cluster IRC 0218 hosts the most distant strong gravitational lensing galaxy currently known at a redshift of z = 1.62. The lens is one of the two brightest cluster galaxies and is lensing a background star-forming galaxy at a redshift of z = 2.26 into a bright arc and a faint counterimage. The lens was discovered through a combination of Hubble Space Telescope and Keck telescope imaging and spectroscopy. The discovery and subsequent analysis of the lens was published in the Astrophysi
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description: Galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_0218
date created:
date modified: 2023-05-14T12:53:19Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/NASA-HS-2014-33-GravitationalLensing-IRC0218.jpg","width":3000,"height":2400}
fields total: 13
integrity: 15

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