Hubble image of the gravitational lens system -- the white objects are the multiple lensed images of the background galaxy, more than 11 billion light-years away. The orange objects are images of the three galaxies some 7 billion light-years away whose gravity is bending the light from the background galaxy to produce the multiple images.

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