Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Abell 2218 is a cluster of galaxies about 2 billion light-years away in the constellation Draco.Acting as a powerful lens, it magnifies and distorts all galaxies lying behind the cluster core into long arcs. The lensed galaxies are all stretched along the cluster's center and some of them are multiply imaged. Those multiple images usually appear as a pair of images with a third — generally fainter — counter image, as is the case for the very distant object.. }
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- Abell_2218 comment "Abell 2218 is a cluster of galaxies about 2 billion light-years away in the constellation Draco.Acting as a powerful lens, it magnifies and distorts all galaxies lying behind the cluster core into long arcs. The lensed galaxies are all stretched along the cluster's center and some of them are multiply imaged. Those multiple images usually appear as a pair of images with a third — generally fainter — counter image, as is the case for the very distant object.".