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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                    2023 June 9   
      
                           Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies   
       Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson   
           (University of Pittsburgh), Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)   
      
      Explanation: This deep field mosaicked image presents a stunning view   
      of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 from the James Webb Space Telescope's   
      NIRCam. Also dubbed Pandora's Cluster, Abell 2744 itself appears to be   
      a ponderous merger of three different massive galaxy clusters some 3.5   
      billion light-years away toward the constellation Sculptor. Dominated   
      by dark matter, the mega-cluster warps and distorts the fabric of   
      spacetime, gravitationally lensing even more distant objects. Redder   
      than the Pandora cluster galaxies many of the lensed sources are very   
      distant galaxies in the early Universe, stretched and distorted into   
      arcs. Of course distinctive diffraction spikes mark foreground Milky   
      Way stars. At the Pandora Cluster's estimated distance this cosmic box   
      spans about 6 million light-years. But don't panic. You can explore the   
      tantalizing region in a 2 minute video tour.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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