The Molten Ring Galaxy is blasting out a trillion suns worth of infrared radiation

A galaxy billion of light years from Earth is pouring out vast amounts of infrared light, the tell-tale signature of furious star birth.

That’s already pretty cool, but it gets better: As the light from this galaxy traverses the Universe it passes by a massive galaxy cluster that distorts it, amplifying its brightness, cloning it repeatedly, and twisting it into what looks like a river of molten gold.

I mean, seriously. Look at this.

A Hubble image of a galaxy cluster 4 billion light years aw...