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Strong Evidence That Ron Paul Really Did Write Those Racist Newsletters

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jaunte12/20/2011 9:39:41 pm PST

This is cool:
A Horseshoe Einstein Ring from Hubble

Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a much more distant blue galaxy. More typically, such light bending results in two discernible images of the distant galaxy, but here the lens alignment is so precise that the background galaxy is distorted into a horseshoe — a nearly complete ring.