According to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211, where thousands of galaxies cluster together under their own gravity. The observation reveals how these cosmic assemblies serve as natural lenses, bending light from even more distant galaxies behind them—a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. Galaxy clusters like this one are key to understanding how the universe's large-scale structure evolved over billions of years.

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