English: Another of the more desolate gravitational lenses. I am personally more interested in something odd going on at the top left of the edge of the detector. Obviously it wasn't the target of the observation, but sometimes something interesting is captured by accident. I marked it with a Flickr note.

The idea with the odd lensing system at the edge is that maybe there is some extra dark matter that's not exactly in a smooth halo around the disk galaxy. I'm not under any illusion that I'm right, though. If there was a clump of dark matter there then why would the disk galaxy appear unperturbed? Dark matter is supposed to affect things gravitationally. Maybe it's some kind of foreground mass that's not actually close enough to affect it, or, most probably, I am simply wrong.

Resolving the Star Formation in Distant Galaxies

WFC3/IR blobs were filled with cloned data.

Red: hst_13003_02_wfc3_ir_f160w_drz Cyan: hst_13003_02_wfc3_ir_f105w_drz Blue: hst_13003_02_wfc3_uvis_f606w_drz, hst_13003_02_wfc3_uvis_f390w_drz

North is 21.8° clockwise from up.