Warped light, ancient galaxies, timeless beauty ✨ Einstein once predicted it and @esawebb sees it in action. These eight breathtaking examples of gravitational lensing - where massive galaxies bend and magnify the light of even more distant ones. Each arc, ring and swirl is a snapshot of cosmic history: – Foreground galaxies seen as they were up to 9 billion years ago. – Background galaxies stretched from the dawn of the Universe. – Even a rare lensing disc galaxy — a thin spiral instead of an elliptical giant. Discovered through the COSMOS-Web Lens Survey, these images show how Webb’s sharp infrared vision helps us explore the most distant corners of the cosmos — uncovering hidden galaxies, star clusters, and even supernovae. Because when light travels for billions of years through warped spacetime, it brings with it stories from the beginning of time. 📹 @europeanspaceagency/Webb, @NASA & @canadianspaceagency, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb); @cre...