This word means: Gravitational lensing | Explained News, The Indian Express

This word means: Gravitational lensing | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Published: August 26, 2019 12:28:29 am

This word means: Gravitational lensing

A natural phenomenon that magnifies light around galaxies. NASA plans to use it to study how Sun formed

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy SDSS J1226+2152, being magnified and distorted by the immense gravity of a galaxy cluster in front of it. It is one of four galaxies that will be studied with Webb. (NASA)

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as a sort of time machine, researchers plan to investigate how new stars are born. For this, they will take the help of a natural phenomenon called “gravitational lensing”.