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Extremely rare ‘Einstein ring’ discovered close to Earth

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring. Einstein rings of light are produced when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, with one behind the other from a fixed perspective. They are one of the best examples we have of gravitational lensing–a phenomenon that Albert Einstein predicted in […]

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