On 16
May 2016, an international team of astrophysicists discovered a new optical Einstein ring called
Canarias Einstein Ring. Einstein Ring is a distorted image of a galaxy, the
source, which is very distant from the Earth. The results of the discovery were
published in the international journal Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society. The discovery was made by a team comprising of doctoral
student Margherita Bettinelli from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
(IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) of Spain. The rare phenomenon was
discovered in the Sculptor constellation, IAC J010127-334319, in the vicinity
of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
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