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

The European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday that its Euclid space telescope has detected a rare bright halo of light around a nearby galaxy. Known as an Einstein ring, the halo was captured in ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --The European Space Agency on Monday said its Euclid telescope discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" nearly 600 million light years from ...

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.

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 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 ...

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is a stunning example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending ...

“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 ...

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Euclid, the ESA spacecraft launched in July 2023 designed to observe deep space in the hope of unlocking the mysteries of the universe, spotted its first strong gravitational lens as it set about ...