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Extremely rare Einstein ring discovered near Earth
short by Anmol Sharma / on Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
The ESA's Euclid space telescope discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring near Earth. These rings of light form when two galaxies are nearly perfectly aligned, with one positioned behind the other from a fixed perspective. The newly discovered ring is situated in the galaxy NGC 6505, approximately 590 million light-years away, with the background galaxy being 4.42 billion light-years away.