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Einstein ring around galaxy NGC 6505
February 22 , 2025
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- Recently, the Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505.
- This is located just 590 million lightyears from the earth.
- An Einstein ring is a special case of strong gravitational lensing.
- Astronomers discovered the first Einstein ring in 1998, more than 80 years after Einstein predicted their existence.
- An Einstein ring is created when a gravitational lens distorts light coming from a distant background object, like a star or a galaxy.
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