focus on the galaxies responsible for the lensing: the bright white elliptical galaxy at the center of the image and smaller white galaxies throughout the image
This photograph comes from the Gigalaxy project and is around a 200 megapixel part of it
The image is of selenographic coordinates 2° N
Image and describtion credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA-1) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site
Stephan's Quintet tatras focus on the galaxies responsibleDiscovered by Edouard M. Stephan in 1877, Stephans Quintet is the first compact group ever discovered. This portrait of Stephans Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASAs Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. Stephans Quintet, as the name implies, is a group of five galaxies. The name, however, is a bit of a misnomer. Studies have shown that group member NGC 7320(upper left) is actually a