In case you have missed the broad media coverage, ESA hold a press conference yesterday where they presented the first early science images -- five of them in total. The images will be the focus of dedicated scientific papers, to be submitted beginning of 2024, but they are already now breathtaking: in size, sharpness, and resolution. The images show hundred thousands of tiny background galaxies with only a few hours of observation time altogether. And, comparable in resolution to HST or JWST, the images were taken in one shot, optical and near-infrared, while the other space telescopes have to take about 100 single snapshots to cover a similar area. To grasp to full brilliance of the images, zoom in! Eventually, 1/3 or thereabouts of the entire sky will be mapped in this brilliance and resolution.

Horsehead nebula

Globular cluster NGC6397

Irregular galaxy NGC6822

Spiral galaxy IC342

Perseus galaxy cluster

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