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Euclid finds complete Einstein Ring in NGC galaxy

Gravitational lenses are rare in the sky – galaxies bending the light-paths of light from other galaxies behind them to form distorted or even multiple images. Even rarer is a perfect alignment of the two galaxies with us, the obervers, with the light being bent into a so-called Einstein Ring. And the rarest case was now observed by Euclid: this happening in an extremely nearby NGC galaxy. Gravitational lensing is the effect of mass bending space and light following along this bent space. If the...

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