LOOK: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Captured an Almost Perfect Einstein Ring In Distant Space

Astronomers are combing through fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope in a never-ending quest to find ever-more-distant galaxies. However, the observatory is still studying a variety of objects, from insanely detailed images of Jupiter to the most distant known star.

Now, Webb has done it again, capturing an almost perfect Einstein ring, the light of which has travelled around 12 billion light-years to reach us. And we can't take our eyes off them.

The colorized image, which was uploaded on Reddit by astronomy graduate student Spaceguy44, is seen in this incredible image.

An Einstein ring happens when a distant galaxy is amplified and wrapped into an almost-perfect ring by a large galaxy in front of it, as Spaceguy44 describes on Reddit.

SPT-S J041839-4751.8 is the name of the galaxy in dispute.

According to Spaceguy44, we wouldn't be able to observe this galaxy at all if it weren't for the Einstein ring.

In addition to being visually appealing, the presence of Einstein rings allows us to investigate these otherwise inaccessible galaxies.

This is known as gravitational lensing, and it was predicted by Einstein, therefore the name.

The effect occurs only when the distant galaxy, the nearby magnifying galaxy, and the observer (in this case, the Webb space telescope) align.

Although seeing Einstein's rings is unusual, it is not unheard of. Hubble has already photographed amazing Einstein rings.

This isn't even Webb's first time capturing SPT-S J041839-Einstein 4751.8's ring.

The identical location was acquired by the space telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) in August, and Spaceguy44 colorized and shared it at the time.

However, as you can see, the image was not as clear.

Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) camera obtained the data in the current picture, which was retrieved via the MAST site.

Three different filters are used in the photograph. The F1000W filter in red collects light wavelengths at 10 m. The F770W filter for 7.7 m wavelengths is green. The blue filter is the F560W, which detects wavelengths of 5.6 m.

Spaceguy44 then used astropy to align and colorize the photos before further processing in GIMP.

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[Rupples]

I am beyond excited to see what else Webb can capture. The deep space shot compared to Hubble’s absolutely blew my mind.

[peterryan]

As now expected with this telescope, just truly sensational

[riffrite]

This is a game changer! Thank You NASA!

[edwardprice]

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[calliope]

He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

[lassoatrain]

Perhaps it is not gravity that causes the light to bend . Maybe light is bending because of the well known phenomena we call refraction . Even here on earth we frequently see the same effects of light bending when we see the sun set. The calculation of the time corrects for atmospheric refraction, which raises the apparent position of the Sun by a little more than one Sun diameter above the horizon. So that delays the apparent time of sunset by about 10 minutes . Perhaps their is some other explanation like dust particles or even a gas in this region of space that is temporarily slowing the speed of light which causes light to bend as it does when it travels thru our atmosphere or thru water .

[nadinegomez]

Congratulation.. i really love this sat

[mkbeatz]

Can somebody explain how this filters and colorization works? Cos if i implement my own filter i can get human out of dog.

[happyhunter]

Why not look at the mars anomalies in hi res?

[Khyrid]

Or... it's some kind of halo ring made by an advanced civilization.

[mrbinklesgames]

@NASA Space News that is a Cool image of Jupiter too please reply

[mrbinklesgames]

@NASA Space News am guessing that is a Galaxy please reply

[timault]

shouldn't there be more einstein rings due to the predominance of dark matter?

[nadinegomez]

It dose cost money to see that far am not getting ane funding, i beleive the sink holes at the dead sea prouves the facts help me befor i get very ill and uncapabke plesas its wont get damage if you leave the trkescooe rest more. Its urgent can you identify us.

[moldyshowercurtain]

I bought an Einstein ring at a sex shop once....

[mr.a]

hi my name is 123456789 or u can just call me human 🤪

[keithtomlinson]

Waste of money, just for pictures of things, that's all it is!