A team of astronomers used a cluster of galaxies like a magnifying glass to discover two never-before-seen distant galaxies. Pandora's Cluster warps the fabric of space-time, creating a visual effect ...

Astronomers at the University of Chicago, MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, ...

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A magnifying glass contains a lens that’s made into a convex shape in order to better see small objects. Magnifying glasses have plenty of uses, from making it easier to read a book to examining ...

It's one of the biggest ever — roughly 30 billion times the mass of our sun. It's the first to be found using gravitational lensing. That's when a nearby galaxy acts like a giant magnifying glass.

Orlando Bloom is opening up about achieving early fame in Lord of the Rings and The Pirates of the Caribbean Orlando Bloom has learned to handle his fame but that wasn’t always the case for the ...

A team of scientists used a clever physics trick to study a galaxy that’s otherwise so far away that no observatories on or orbiting the Earth could get a good look at it. The technique, known as ...

Astronomers have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very ...

A Louisville artist is creating art through destruction using some simple tools. Artist Billy Keith uses a giant magnifying glass to burn images onto plywood, letting the sun's rays pass through the ...

Scientists at NASA have revealed a new plan to turn the Sun into a giant magnifying glass, tapping into a phenomenon called gravitational lensing to locate new planets in ultra-high resolution.

Watch how a giant magnifying glass transforms a simple flashlight beam into something far more intense and focused. 'It's not allowed in my religion': Aly Goni on why he didn't chant Ganpati Bappa ...

Orlando Bloom has learned to handle his fame but that wasn’t always the case for the British actor. Bloom, 42, starred as Legolas in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and later gained international ...