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Animated space-science series

VEGA & QUBIT

Real space. Real science. Big adventures.

Short, gorgeous explainers about how the universe actually works — for curious humans of every age.

Latest episode

The Ring That Shouldn't Be There

That "smudge" on the cockpit window? It's a whole galaxy — its light bent into a glowing ring by gravity. A nine-minute trip through gravitational lensing: Einstein rings, nature's telescopes, and why the first photo of a black hole is really a ring of light.

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