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.

Einstein rings are examples of strong gravitational lensing, O’Riordan said, a phenomenon that acts like a magnifying glass in the universe ... acts like a ‘lens,’ focusing the light ...

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly ...

Most gravitational lenses appear as partial arcs or distorted shapes rather than perfect ... Each of these cosmic magnifying glasses will help astronomers study galaxies too distant to observe ...

Options include: Corrective eyewear or contact lenses Eye patches (to help improve depth perception in those with lazy eye) Low-vision aids (like magnifying reading glasses and handheld light ...

But it comes in colorful hues like pink and teal, and the rear dual-lens camera ... Island pill-shaped display cut-out for the front-facing camera, and a color-infused glass back with an aluminum ...

When parsing through images meant to test the camera on a new space telescope, scientists recently recognized a striking and rare phenomenon that had been perfectly captured by the craft.