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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.   
      
                                    2024 June 8   
      
                           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 recorded by 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. It lies 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, their lensed images 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.   
      
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