For now, NGC 6505 stands as a beacon in the dark, illuminating a path toward deeper cosmic insight, one bent ray of light at a time. Einstein Rings and the cosmic lens: How NGC 6505 is reshaping ...

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 ...

The image reveals NGC 6505 encircled by a near-perfect ring of light originating from a background galaxy positioned 4.42 billion light-years away.

A ring of light surrounding the center of NGC 6505, a nearby galaxy, is captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope.

NGC 6505, which is some 190,000 light-years across, was first observed by the American astronomer and prolific cataloguer of nebulae Lewis A. Swift on June 27, 1884.

The Euclid telescope captured a ring of light surrounding the center of the galaxy NGC 6505. The image also includes the extended halo of the galaxy, nearby stars and other distant galaxies.

The NGC 6505 gravitational lens was discovered by chance in one of the first patches of sky observed by Euclid, just two months after its July 2023 launch and during its mission verification phase.

A ring of light surrounding the center of NGC 6505, a nearby galaxy, is captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope.

NGC 6505 is a well-known galaxy only around 590 million light-years from Earth, and Euclid’s discovery of a spectacular Einstein ring here was unexpected. (Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, ...

It is a cosmic phenomenon that elegantly showcases the warping of space-time, a consequence of gravity predicted over a century ago by Albert Einstein.

A ring of light surrounding the center of NGC 6505, a nearby galaxy, is captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope.