This image is released as part of the Early Release Observations from ESA’s Euclid space mission. All data from these initial observations are made public on 23 May 2024 – including a handful of unprecedented new views of the nearby Universe, this being one. This image is a smaller, close-up cutout from a wider frame featuring galaxy cluster Abell 2390. It showcases many features caused by gravitational lensing, including the giant arc of a distant red galaxy.
[Image description: Thousands of stars and galaxies are spread over this image. One very big bright star lies on the left, and another on the centre bottom of the image. These stars and many smaller ones around them have six diffraction spikes coming from a central light-halo. In the central region, the shape of some elliptical galaxies becomes clear. They look like bright haloes around an even brighter centre.]