Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space

Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by Groxx on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:50PM (#16823801)

They're quite neat, but haven't we had pictures of these for quite a while? Is there something new about this one, or is it ("just") an article reminding people that cool stuff still exists?

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by Sharlin on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:59PM (#16823880)

Yep, and the article pretty much admits that in the second half. The featured picture itself is years old. Title is pure clickbait.

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by soared on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:06PM (#16823940)

Its not clickbait - the article says we know about less than 12 Einstein rings. So finding 1 occurence of something we've only seen 12 of seems significant.

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by Sharlin on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:15PM (#16824012)

Hmm... I could've sworn I've seen that exact photo several times before. But NASA does seem to claim it's new. Or at least the nasa.gov page was edited recently...

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by soared on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:16PM (#16825017)

Yeah another comment said the image is of an older one. There probably isn't a photo of the new one yet

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by BurningFrog on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:13AM (#16827276)

Seen one Einstein ring, seen them all...

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by batbomb on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:00PM (#16823885)

Yes, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Horseshoe

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by InclinedPlane on Thursday April 12, 2018 @04:08PM (#16824486)

Yes, the article is distinctly missing the word "another".

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Re:Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring... by ganzuul on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:09AM (#16827717)

Maybe reminding people that Hubble is still alive, and still doing science.

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