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ALT A side-by-side composition that reads 'Euclid early commissioning test images'. We see a field of many stars and galaxies, in black and white on the left and in orange hues on the right. The image on the left was taken by the VISible instrument (VIS). The image on the right was taken by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP). They are on the same scale, with the full versions of these images each being seven by seven arcminutes. Because the images are largely unprocessed, some unwanted artefacts remain – for example the cosmic rays that appear as white lines shooting straight across, seen especially in the VIS image.
ALT Image taken with the VISible instrument (VIS) and composed of 36 squares on the left, arranged in 6 by 6 squares, and one bigger square on the right. The image on the left shows the full VIS field of view, with the zoom-in on the right (showing one detector split into four quadrants) demonstrating the extraordinary level of detail that VIS is already achieving. We see spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters, and much more. But the area of sky that this zoom-in covers is actually only about a quarter of the width and height of the full Moon.
ALT Image taken with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) and composed of 16 squares on the left, arranged in 4 by 4 squares, and one bigger square on the right. The image on the left shows the full NISP field of view, with the zoom-in on the right (4% of NISP’s full field of view) demonstrating the extraordinary level of detail that NISP is already achieving. We see spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters, and much more. But the area of sky that it covers is actually only about a quarter of the width and height of the full Moon.
ALT Side-by-side deep field images from the Webb telescope’s MIRI and NIRCam instruments. The MIRI image on the left is black, with bright glowing points of blue, yellow, red, orange, and green, which are galaxies and stars. The stars have stubby diffraction spikes radiating out, most prominently seen around a bright blue star just above and to the left of the center of the image. The right image from NIRCam also shows a black void of space. Against the black, stars and galaxies shine in oranges, yellows, whites and blues. Some of the galaxies are recognizably spirals, while some just look like colorful smudges of light. Near the center, where the gravitational lensing is occurring, some galaxies are doubled, forming a faint circle. In the center of the circle is a smear of white light. Sprinkled among the galaxies are stars, distinguishable by the diffraction spikes radiating out from them. The same bright blue star as seen in the MIRI image dominates the center of the NIRCam image.
ALT This Hubble image features a globular star cluster called NGC 1466, which is located on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud – one of our closest galactic neighbors.
