http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Space____the_final_frontier_999.html Space... the final frontier by Staff Writers Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 26, 2016 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403. This is one of six being studied by the Hubble Frontier Fields programme, which together have produced the deepest images of gravitational lensing ever made. Image courtesy NASA, ESA and the HST Frontier Fields team (STScI). For a larger version of this image please go here. Fifty years ago Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise began their journey into space - the final frontier. Now, as the newest Star Trek film hits cinemas, the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope is also exploring new frontiers, observing distant galaxies in the galaxy cluster Abell S1063 as part of the Frontier Fields programme. Space... the final frontier. These are the stories of the Hubble Space Telescope. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds and to boldly look where no telescope has looked before. The newest target of Hubble's mission is the distant galaxy cluster Abell S1063, potentially home to billions of strange new worlds. This view of the cluster, which can be seen in the centre of the image, shows it as it was four billion years ago. But Abell S1063 allows us to explore a time even earlier than this, where no telescope has really looked before. The huge mass of the cluster distorts and magnifies the light from galaxies that lie behind it due to an effect called gravitational lensing. This allows Hubble to see galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to observe and makes it possible to search for, and study, the very first generation of galaxies in the Universe. "Fascinating", as a famous Vulcan might say.
