The survey is led by a former U-M Astronomy postdoc, Dr. Guillaume Mahler (University of Liège, Belgium), with key team members including Prof. Keren Sharon and Dr. Catherine Cerny at U-M.
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 actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image, while the more distant background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring.
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