Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space

Dazzling image shows galaxy more than 4bn light years away, whose starlight has been bent due to gravity

The Euclid space telescope has captured a rare phenomenon called an Einstein ring that reveals the extreme warping of space by a galaxy's gravity.

The dazzling image shows a nearby galaxy, NGC 6505, surrounded by a perfect circle of light. The ring gives a glimpse of a more distant galaxy, sitting directly behind NGC 6505, whose starlight has been bent around the foreground galaxy.