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 ...

Euclid image of a bright Einstein ring around galaxy NGC 6505 ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li The Euclid Space Telescope has captured a ...

Euclid initially captured an image of a well-observed galaxy named NGC 6505, which is located about 590 million light-years from Earth, in 2023. A light-year is the distance light travels in one ...

The rare phenomenon was spotted in test images from Euclid, a powerful space telescope. Astronomers took the images to ensure that everything on Euclid was working as it should be. But in those ...