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Astronomers Devise a New Way to Measure Cosmic Expansion with Lensed Supernovae


Researchers in Munich have used the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to capture five images of one and the same supernova in a single picture. The gravity of two foreground galaxies has deflected the light from a supernova far in the background along different paths to Earth.

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