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This video from the NASA, ESA, CSA James Webb Space Telescope takes the viewer on a journey through space to the location of the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. Due to Gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of the same supernovahosting galaxy. Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend the path of light travelling past or through it, almost like a vast lens. In this case, the lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located around 3. 2 billion lightyears from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Credit: ESA, Webb, NASA CSA, P. Kelly, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, DSS, N. Bartmann (ESA, Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA, Webb), M. Zamani (ESA, Webb) Music: Tonelabs The Red North , ESA, Webb, Space