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Description	English: a w:gravitational lens caused by w:galaxy cluster w:Abell 2218^[1]
Source	NASA
Author	WFPC2, HST, NASA, STScI, Andrew Fruchter ^[2]

The galaxy cluster lies 2 billion light years away, in the w:Draco (constellation)^[3]

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