MadSci Network: Astronomy
Query:

Subject: Can 1 star appear in 2 places in the sky at the same time?

Date: Fri Sep 15 17:00:53 2000
Posted by Randy Hughes
Grade level: teacher/prof School: No school entered.
City: Dallas State/Province: Texas Country: usa
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 969051653.As
Message:

Since gravity can bend light, is it possible for light to leave a star and 
travel along a complicated path, so that it appears in one part of the 
sky, but is actually in a direction signifcantly different?  If so, could 
the light coming off the back side of a star reach us and appear as a 
different, more distant star?


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