# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPr04m1jsbr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35581655-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/fdfdd2e84a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-10-11T21:55:04.000+00:00

## Caption

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); @creativecommons BY 4.0
📸 ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco; CC BY 4.0

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |

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