Free Astronomy Magazine May-June 2015

29 MAY-JUNE 2015 SPACE CHRONICLES I n the side video, a zoom into the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from the natural gravitational lensing of this clus- ter, can faintly detect the remote galaxy A1689-zD1 seen just 700 million years after the beginning of our Universe. This object has been detected by ALMA and had its distance measured using ESO's Very Large Tele- scope. [ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)]