To dive deeper, the chance of a galaxy – or galaxy cluster – acting as a gravitational lens is highest for some intermediate distance from us observers, and for the source galaxy to be quite a bit further away. However it is beyond astonishing that the first lens is very nearby, actually located in an NGC galaxy – from the New General Catalogue of nearby galaxies – and that it shows a perfect Einstein Ring of the source galaxy. With the peculiar structure of the right it was quickly clear that this must be the case of strong gravitational lensing, and the ring was actually not part of NGC 6505 but the distorted image of a background galaxy.