One such revelation arrived in the form of an astonishing discovery around the elliptical galaxy NGC 6505 – a complete Einstein ring, captured by the keen eyes of the Euclid space telescope.

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

A close-up view of the centre of the NGC 6505 galaxy, with the bright Einstein ring around its nucleus, captured by ESA’s Euclid space telescope. The Einstein ring is formed by gravitational ...

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 ...

The Einstein ring that Euclid spotted is located in the galaxy NGC 6505. It is only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Earth ...

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope. (photo credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre ...

The discovery, revealed in the journal Astronomy And Astrophysics, is of a circle of light created by gravitational lensing ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million lightyears from the earth.

Hence Euclid's unofficial nickname "the dark universe detective." The gravitational lens in question is the galaxy NGC 6505, located around 590 million light-years away. Though this sounds like an ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an ...