Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers used a cluster of galaxies like a magnifying glass to discover two never-before-seen distant galaxies.

A Louisville artist is creating art through destruction using some simple tools. Artist Billy Keith uses a giant magnifying glass to burn images onto plywood, letting the sun's rays pass through the ...

A magnifying glass contains a lens that’s made into a convex shape in order to better see small objects. Magnifying glasses have plenty of uses, from making it easier to read a book to examining ...

A team of scientists used a clever physics trick to study a galaxy that’s otherwise so far away that no observatories on or orbiting the Earth could get a good look at it. The technique, known as ...

Astronomers at the University of Chicago, MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, ...

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