 In this image, a remote galaxy is greatly magnified and distorted by gravitational lensing. The galaxy's light has also been magnified by a factor of 20. Lensing effects also created multiple operations around the curved arc of the single background magnified galaxy. The object was nicknamed the Molten Ring because of its appearance. After its public release in 2021, astronomers used the picture to measure the galaxy's distance of 9.4 billion light years. At that time, there was an extremely high rate of star formation in the brightest and dustiest early galaxies. Stars were being formed at a rate a thousand times faster than occurs within our own galaxy today.