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SIO360: How Gravitational Lensing Helps Us Understand the Universe

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The Importance of Pre-Lensing Galaxies

The galaxies come in lots of different shapes and sizes before you're even talking about distorting the vision. So that's why it makes it harder to tell probably that it's being lensed. One of my favorite things about all of sci-fi is that it tends to just stick to two dimensions. I guess it's just too hard for us to handle going down for a long, long time.

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