Webb Telescope captures an Einstein ring in the Hydrus constellation Light bends around a massive galaxy, forming a glowing ring Gravitational lensing helps study distant galaxies and dark matter ...

The James Webb Space Telescope data used in this image was taken as part of the Strong Lensing and Cluster Evolution (SLICE) survey led by Guillaume Mahler at University of Liège in Belgium ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The dramatic outflow from a newborn star, known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH ...

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is ...

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The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. This rare sight, caused by light from a distant galaxy ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and Joseph Olmsted (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling unpredictably through the ...

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning image of a bizarre astronomical optical illusion. This "rare cosmic phenomenon", called an ...

Observed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy -- designated JADES-GS-z14-0 -- is unexpectedly bright and chemically complex for an object from this primordial era, the researchers said.