By Marcia Dunn
CAPE Canaveral, Florida (AP) – The Euclid Spatial Telescope of Europe detected a rare halo of lively light around a neighboring galaxy, astronomers reported on Monday.
The Halo, known as an Einstein ring, surrounds a galaxy at 590 million light years, considered to be close to cosmic standards. A light year is 5.8 miles of kilometers.
Astronomers have known this galaxy for over a century and were therefore surprised when Euclide revealed the brilliant brilliant ring, reported in the magazine Astronomy and Astrophysics.
An Einstein ring is light with a much more distant galaxy which folds in order to perfectly surround a closer object, in this case a well -known galaxy in the Draco constellation. The distant galaxy creating the ring is more than 4 billion light years.
The gravity has distorted the light of this more distant galaxy, so the name honoring Albert Einstein. The process is known as the gravitational lens.
“All the strong objectives are special because they are so rare, and they are incredibly useful scientifically. This is particularly special, because it is so close to the earth and the alignment makes it very beautiful, “said the main author Conor O’riordan of the German Institute of Max Planck for astrophysics in a press release .
Euclid exploded from Florida in 2023. NASA participated in its mission to detect black energy and dark matter in the universe.
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