#PhotoOfTheDay: #Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground elliptical galaxy.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-images-galaxies-near-and-far/
HerS 020941.1+001557 is the designation for a very distant galaxy that appears as a dramatic #Einstein #Ring due to a phenomenon called #Gravitational #Lensing.
Its light, emitted 11 billion years ago, has been bent and magnified by the gravitational field of a closer, massive elliptical galaxy (SDSS J020941.27+001558.4) located between HerS 020941.1+001557 and Earth.
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