The photo was taken by JWSTs MIRI detector, then colorized and aligned by Spaceguy44.
The resulting warped image is known as an Einstein ring, a special kind of gravitational lensing.
An example of gravitational lensing is Hubble’simageof Abell 370.
In fact, astronomers have reconstructed animage of the galaxythat proves his statement.
When capturing galaxies, an effect calledgravitational lensingcan occur.
Photo:NASA,ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team(STSSci)
Photo:ESA/Hubble&NASA, T. Treu
