The European Space Agency has just released the first full-colour science images from the Euclid space telescope, and they are spectacularly sharp.

While Webb provides an incredibly deep, narrow look at the universe, Euclid is all about breadth. The image of the Perseus Cluster is staggering - it contains 1,000 galaxies in the cluster itself, and over 100,000 background galaxies scattered in the darkness behind it, all captured in a single, razor-sharp pointing. To map the dark matter framework of the cosmos, you need an unimaginably large dataset, and Euclid is clearly up to the task.

My post about Euclid's launch, back in November.

ESA's Euclid First Images.