Astronomers find Einstein ring a “stone’s throw” away from Earth

Hey, Space Placers!

    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. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, T. Li CC BY-SA.

This is a BIG discovery by European Space Agency's Euclid Space Telescope: "Euclid launched on 1 July, 2023, beginning a 6-year mission to study dark matter, dark energy and gravity. One of its goals is to create a 3D map of the large-scale structure of the universe by observing billions of galaxies across more than a third of the sky."

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