[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Tremblay (ESO) et al.; Acknowledgment: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration]

[no-to-illegals]

Thank You. Beauty beyond words in that photo.

[DannyTN]

Is it a rainbow bridge?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I’d like to know more about that really red galaxy on the right.

[MUDDOG]

curving blue filaments that are actually galaxies far in the distance

Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away...

[BlueDragon]

Galaxies suck squiggly blue filaments

[Prospero]

The Einstein Ring phenomena is fundamental to the mind's coming to grips with the features in this field of view, a spectacularly deep sky image. Many objects seemingly closer in it are likely to be in fact much more distant than the larger cluster berycentered structures, warping and magnifying their older backgrounds.

But that's, of course, "academic," as they say. It will require a careful census, piece by piece, a spectrographic structural and redshift analysis - to create an accurate 3D model.

Long experience pouring over these deep-sky zoos has me believing the "Einstein Ring" and arc light bending plays a far bigger role in creating the end results we see here, far, far away. It's incredible, of course, but so is the process of long-term exposure of these fields subtending such small fractional degrees of arc.

Psalm 8 immediately comes to mind, and the earlier parts of Romans.