NASA Einstein Ring SpaceX Starship Cross

The Hubble Space Telescope operated by NASA + ESA captures a spellbinding image of ancient galaxies and a glowing Einstein Ring that relays - via the gravitational lensing first predicted by Einstein - 5 echoing images of a distant quasar. These relativistic lenses - fantastical super-telescopes built into the physics of the cosmos - are allowing astronomers to zoom in on first-generation galaxies and quasars that formed right after the Big Bang. The SpaceX Starships are counting down to exploring the cosmos. Einstein Ring image courtesy of NASA/ESA, T. Treu and J. Schmidt, Starships courtesy of SpaceX and Elon Musk, image composition by Kevin Holden Platt