A stunning halo of light in a nearby galaxy has been captured by Europe's Euclid space telescope. Known as the "Einstein ring," the halo exists in a galaxy about 590 million light-years away, with ...

The galaxy it encircles (NGC 6505) is around 590 million light-years from Earth. The background galaxy from which the light emanates, at 4.42 billion light years, is much farther away. That galaxy, ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

This photo provided by the European Space Agency shows a ring of light surrounding the center of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, an example of an Ei… ...

James Webb Space Telescope image of the stellar nursery N79 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky ...

A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles. Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared.

A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time By Tom Metcalfe edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier The Carousel Lens ( center ) bends ...

A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104). The signature, glowing core seen in visible-light images ...

That point is critical because the mass of an object, whether a speck of dust or a spaceship, limits the top speed it can travel through space. But because light is massless, it’s able to reach ...

A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space telescope that scientists hope will uncover more cosmic phenomena throughout ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring ...

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) 31,136 people ...