If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission ... and now James Webb has captured an image of a beautiful Einstein Ring. NASA’s James Webb telescope captured this image ...

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.

A distant galaxy, invisible for billions of years, has reappeared in a surprising form thanks to a rare cosmic illusion ...

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 ...

Einstein rings occur when light from a distant galaxy bends to form a glowing ring around another object in the foreground as that object is being observed. The rarely observed rings are named for ...

Now, thanks to the European Space Agency’s $1 billion Euclid telescope, scientists have found one of the most pristine examples yet — a complete Einstein ring in the elliptical galaxy NGC 6505.

A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The Euclid telescope, from the European Space Agency, captured images of the ...

The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. Bright auroras on Jupiter are ...