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

The European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday that its Euclid space telescope has detected a rare bright halo of light around a nearby galaxy. Known as an Einstein ring, the halo was captured in ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --The European Space Agency on Monday said its Euclid telescope discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" nearly 600 million light years from ...

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.

“I find it very intriguing that this ring was observed within a well-known galaxy, which was first discovered in 1884,” said study coauthor Valeria Pettorino, ESA Euclid Project ...

ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Bildbearbeitung durch J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO By detecting radiation emitted by the galaxy clusters, scientists were able to confirm the ...

C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope has located a rare hoop of light called an "Einstein ring" in a nearby elliptical galaxy. Though the galaxy has ...

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 instrument, called Euclid in honor of the ancient Greek mathematician, reached space and headed out to Lagrange Point 2 (L2), located 1.5 million km (932,000 miles) from Earth. It then parked ...