Portal:Astronomy/Picture/Week 32 2006

The galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916 is one of the most distant ever observed. It is only visible from Earth due to the effects of gravitational lensing caused by a galaxy cluster at a smaller distance along the line of sight. It is believed to lie at a distance of 13.2 billion light years, meaning we are seeing it as it was just 500 million years after the Big Bang.