# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DF6OehCJgCX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26576547-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-02-10T22:54:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

The Bend & Snap 💅⁣
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We don’t know the rate of return on scoring a dinner invitation with this information, but what you see here is the light from a distant galaxy bending around a closer one. The EuropeanSpaceAgency’s Euclid telescope snapped this observation of a rare phenomenon called an Einstein ring.⁣

The gravity of this elliptical galaxy, which is around 590 million light-years from Earth, acts as a lens. It magnifies a much more distant bright galaxy, some 4.42 billion light-years away, into a ring of light. ⁣

Developed by ESA with contributions from NASA, Euclid is surveying the cosmos to help us understand the dark side of the universe. We can’t wait to see what it reveals next!⁣
Image descriptions:⁣
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1. The large, hazy oval of elliptical galaxy NGC 6505 illuminates the center of this image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission. At the heart of the galaxy is a small bright spot surrounded by a thin white circle, which is a magnified view of a much more distant galaxy. The view is also filled with countless colorful stars and galaxies of various sizes and shapes amidst the blackness of space. Thin spikes of light extend from the brightest stars due to the observatory’s optics.⁣
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2. A thin ring of a perfect circular shape and a piercingly bright white disc in its middle are the protagonists of this image. They ⁣stand out against a uniformly colored background of a hazy dark grey. The ring appears as if it was a faint brush stroke, where at four evenly spaced spots more pressure was applied on the brush. These stand out in the ring as four brighter and thicker spots. The white disc within the ring gives the impression of a gaping hole in the image, through its stark contrast to the dark background.⁣
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Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, T. Li; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO⁣
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#EinsteinRing #ESAEuclid #GravitationalLensing #Galaxy #Gravity #Space

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