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The Hubble Telescope's latest photo from NASA's Frontier Fields project shows a picture of the deepest view we've ever seen into space. Man, it's beautiful.

NASA scientists created a sort of naturally occurring zoom lens by using the bending of light that happens when galaxies pull on each other. The image below is Abell 2744 - a group of hundreds of galaxies some 3.5 billion light years away from Earth.

"The Frontier Fields is an experiment; can we use Hubble's exquisite image quality, and Einstein's theory of general relativity to search for the first galaxies?" said Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute director, in a statement. "With the other Great Observatories, we are undertaking an ambitious joint program to use galaxy clusters to explore the first billion years of the universe's history."

Super awesome:

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