Breathtaking images of thousands of galaxies taken ... ‘Where a galaxy bends the light of something in the background so much that it messes it up,’ Amara explained. ‘These are very rare.

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and the gating of the gain of the intensified camera is accurately synchronized with the laser pulses to ensure that only the light emitted from the flame — rather than from background noise and ...