One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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Einstein Ring Found in Space Points the Way to a Galaxy We Never Knew Existed
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, in operation for a few months now, uncovered light coming from a ...
Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
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Space pictures! See our space image of the day
Space can be a wondrous place ... to "weigh" the dark matter at the heart of a galaxy almost 600 million light-years away. Euclid's 3D map of the universe will delve back into 10 billion years ...
Space telescope reveals rare ‘Einstein ring’ phenomenon with startling clarity
The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...
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Discovery of Stunning Einstein Ring by European Space Agency’s Euclid – the Dark Universe Detective
A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...
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Euclid 'dark universe' telescope discovers stunning Einstein ring in warped space-time (image)
The Euclid space telescope has, by chance, discovered its first Einstein ring, and it is absolutely stunning. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers ...
Scientists spot rare Einstein ring of light from far-away galaxy which has never been observed before
The ring is made up of light from a galaxy 4.42 billion light-years away and what can be seen from Earth is distorted by ...
ESA’s space telescope Euclid discovers ‘astonishing' Einstein ring
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was going through preliminary tests in September 2023 when it captured images of an Einstein Ring in a nearby galaxy.