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A distant galaxy, invisible for billions of years, has reappeared in a surprising form thanks to a rare cosmic illusion ...
In this scene, the nearer galaxy SDSS J020941.27+001558.4, is acting like a colossal magnifying glass in the sky. This allows ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years ...
The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid, a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies.
This Hubble Space Telescope image features a remote galaxy, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground ...
It's two galaxies, many billions of light-years apart, combined into one by a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. It's an optical illusion. Published recently as the James Webb Space ...
We have now found dozens of Einstein rings, and one of the more beautiful examples was recently found by JWST, as seen in the image above. The close galaxy in the foreground is an elliptical ...
So much so that the cosmic phenomenon is called an "Einstein ring." Einstein rings happen when light from one distant object is bent around the mass of another, slightly closer and even larger object.