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Good Ol' Gravity lensing.
If you look closely in this swarm of galactic embers, you can see the streaks of even more distant galaxies, magnified and distorted by gravitational lensing. The massive gravity of the foreground galaxy cluster acts like a magnifying lens. https://go.nasa.gov/2Id3jid
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The galaxies looking so small on the picture but in reality there are one hundred thousands light-years big or even bigger
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No, these are very different images.
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