"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million lightyears from the earth.

ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Bildbearbeitung durch J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO By detecting radiation emitted by the galaxy clusters, scientists were able to confirm the ...

C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope has located a rare hoop of light called an "Einstein ring" in a nearby elliptical galaxy. Though the galaxy has ...

The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid, a space telescope ... observed and does not have a name, the ESA says. "It looks to us like a ring because ...

The European Space Agency (ESA), announced on Monday, that the Euclid telescope has discovered an Einstein ring 'hiding in plain sight' in a nearby galaxy. This galaxy named NGC 6505 is approximately ...

“I find it very intriguing that this ring was observed within a well-known galaxy, which was first discovered in 1884,” said study coauthor Valeria Pettorino, ESA Euclid Project ...

Meet the Artemis 2 moon mission astronauts and learn about private lunar landers, space telescopes and the "dark universe" at ...