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Abell 2218

Abell 2218 is a large cluster of galaxies over 2 billion light-years away in the constellation Draco. Acting as a powerful lens, it magnifies and distorts all galaxies lying behind the cluster core into long arcs. The lensed galaxies are all... Wikipedia
Location: constellation of Draco
Distance: 719 Mpc (2,345 Mly) h−1; 0.705
Number of galaxies: ~10,000
Redshift: 0.17560