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Buckethead
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- common pattern emerges from Einstein Cross
This is probably just a coincidence, but I happened to notice while looking at Einstein crosses an unusual pattern common to these four images. I was looking for more but it turns out there may not be as many crosses as I originally thought. Must be rare. The pattern is that of the 4 background objects (quasar, supernova) the line connecting two of them cross the center, while the line connecting the other two are offset from the center. Also, I'm fascinated by the symmetry of the two pairs in the images. The first observation is likely a fluke but the symmetry is what kind of gets me. For what must be an obviously distorted lens, it's a bit strange that there would be not only symmetry of one pair, but of two pair! In other words, it would be much more likely to see a two object image around the center (not even pairs, but just in two random locations) than to see two perfectly symmetrical pairs. Comments?