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Quasar PKS1830-211
A radio image of a remote quasar that appears double because an intervening (unnamed) galaxy is distorting the shape with gravitational lensing. A team of SAO astronomers used the "extended SMA" to measure atomic carbon in this intervening galaxy. Credit: NRAO
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