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Deep Dive: NASA’s Hubble Charts Path for Roman with Gravitational Lenses

Ran in the 1:05 PM edition of LivePulse, Thursday, October 22, 2026
Original reporting: NASA News, 2026-10-22

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the lower-right corner, where a distant background galaxy is being magnified and distorted by the gravity of a closer galaxy. This observation is one of many gravitational lensing images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for science with the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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