Scientists have found a rare “Einstein ring” near Earth – stumbling on it almost by accident.The rare phenomenon was spotted in test images from Euclid, a powerful space telescope.Astronomers took the images to ensure that everything on Euclid was working as it should be.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.

A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The Euclid telescope, from the European Space Agency, captured images of the

The "beautiful" glimmering ring was discovered by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope and is formed by light from a faraway galaxy hitting a galaxy close to Earth, a "mere" 500 million light years away from our Milky Way galaxy.

ESA’s Euclid telescope captures a rare Einstein Ring, revealing a distant galaxy and shedding light on dark matter

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about dark matter at the heart of a distant galaxy.

This ring is made up of light from a galaxy 4.42 billion light years away and what can be seen from Earth is distorted by gravity. The distant galaxy has not been observed before