ESA’s Euclid telescope captured an amazing image of an Einstein ring located in galaxy NGC 6505 approximately 590 million light-years from Earth. This phenomenon occurs when light from a distant galaxy bends to form a ring that appears aligned with a foreground object.
It was named after Albert Einstein, whose general theory of relativity predicts that light will bend and brighten around objects in space. The one you see here encircles the center of elliptical galaxy NGC 6505 in the constellation Draco, and thanks to Euclid’s high-resolution instruments, this is the first time that the ring of light surrounding the galaxy has been detected.
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I find it very intriguing that this ring was observed within a well-known galaxy, which was first discovered in 1884. The galaxy has been known to astronomers for a very long time. And yet this ring was never observed before. This demonstrates how powerful Euclid is, finding new things even in places we thought we knew well. This discovery is very encouraging for the future of the Euclid mission and demonstrates its fantastic capabilities,” said Valeria Pettorino, ESA Euclid project scientist.
