Constellation Boötes Declination +15° 13′ 25.0″ Apparent magnitude (V) 21.9 | Right ascension 14 01 35.60 Redshift 3.235 | |
Notable features Six-image lens, noted [MRF99] CLASS B1359+154 A, A to F | ||
CLASS B1359+154 is a quasar, or quasi-stellar object, that has a redshift of 3.235. A group of three foreground galaxies at a redshift of about 1 are behaving as gravitational lenses. The result is a rare example of a sixfold multiply imaged quasar.
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