The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. This rare s

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light of a distant galaxy is warped into a perfect circle by the gravity of a closer one.

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured Neptune's ghostly rings and revealed a band of clouds around a known vortex at the planet's south pole for the first time.