SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Cosmic Eye, Space Tourist, More

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Cosmic Eye, Young Star, More
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October 9, 2008--This colorful "cosmic eye" in the sky is a distant, star-forming galaxy named for its resemblance to the ancient Egyptian "Eye of Horus."

The red "pupil" seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image is actually a foreground galaxy that creates gravitational lensing, which makes LBG J2135-0102 much easier to observe.

The nearly complete blue ring of the more distant star-forming galaxy appears as it existed when the universe was only two billion years old.
—Image courtesy Durham University
 
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