A brilliant "ring of fire" has been spotted in deep space, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a galaxy 12 billion light-years away. The near-perfect "Einstein ring" was captured at a super-high resolution of 23 milliarcseconds by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a ground telescope in the Atacama desert in Northern Chile. (Scroll down for images.) "With the astounding level of detail in these new ALMA images, astronomers will now be able to reassemble the information con...
A brilliant "ring of fire" has been spotted in deep space, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a galaxy 12 billion light-years away. The near-perfect "Einstein ring" was captured at a super-high resolution of 23 milliarcseconds by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a ground telescope in the Atacama desert in Northern Chile. (Scroll down for images.) "With the astounding level of detail in these new ALMA images, astronomers will now be able to reassemble the information con...
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