When we observe a distant galaxy with our telescope, its light may encounter another galaxy on its way to us. The foreground galaxy acts like a magnifying lens, bending the travelling light rays due ...
Scientists have found a rare Einstein ring in “our cosmic backyard” using images from the Euclid space telescope.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a spectacular image of an Einstein ring – a circle of light formed around a galaxy by gravitational lensing. Taken by the €1.4bn Euclid mission, the ring ...
Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...
Scientists have discovered an impressive galaxy with Hubble Space Telescope that has six more rings than other previously ...
Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has captured LEDA 1313424, a galaxy with nine star-filled rings, the most ever detected, ...
A massive circular structure in the Sahara Desert has puzzled scientists for decades. Spanning 25 miles, it is so large that ...
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
A blue dwarf galaxy pitched through the bullseye's galactic neighborhood 50 million years ago, leaving behind nine glittering ...
A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.
What if you could find binoculars big enough to qualify as small telescopes? Get ready for the BT–127XL–SD apochromatic ...