When the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope launched on July 1, 2023, to explore the dark universe, no one expected its first major discovery to come during routine testing. Yet in ...
The ring sits in the galaxy NGC 6505, which is about 590 million ... waiting to be discovered with more state-of-the-art instrumentation. Euclid’s first scientific images, released in November ...
The ring and other findings are detailed in a study published February 10 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. A close-up view of the centre of the NGC 6505 galaxy, with the bright Einstein ...
A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space telescope that scientists hope will uncover more cosmic phenomena throughout the ...
Data from the Esa Euclid telescope enable precise analysis of an Einstein ring around the galaxy core of NGC 6505 and thus the surrounding dark ...
The team also suspects the collision might have formed a bygone tenth ring. In the words of Forbes’ Amanda Kooser, “the smaller galaxy not only put a ring on it, it put at least nine rings on ...