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VLA image (green) of radio emission from HCN gas, superimposed on Hubble Space Telescope image of the Cloverleaf galaxy. The four images of the Cloverleaf are the result of gravitational lensing.
CREDIT: NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI

Same image, but with contours indicating intensity of the HCN radio emission, added.