Euclid peers through a dark cloud’s dusty veil

This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by theEuropean Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Part of a so-called dark cloud, named LDN 1641, the nebula sits at about 1300 light-years from Earth, within a sprawling complex of dusty gas clouds in the constellation of Orion.In visible light this region of the sky appears mostly dark, with few stars dotting what seems to be a primarily empty background. But, by imaging the cloud with the infrared eyes of itsNISP instrument, E Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Schirmer (MPIA, Heidelberg)