This is a small part of the Shapley Supercluster. It is big enough and close enough that it can't possibly fit within Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys / Wide Field Channel field of view, which is around 200 arcseconds wide.

The bright, elliptical galaxy just right of center has no simple name, but the designation used for the observation was 2MASXJ13272961-3123237, which is really just another way of saying "An object in the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) at a certain time and coordinate"

Point being, I am having a hard time describing it, but I still think it's wonderful. The data are robust enough to easily create a very clean image with little post work, because when there are enough exposures, all the cosmic rays disappear completely. That's important to note, because it means I can more confidently point out that many of those little specks hovering around the bright elliptical are clumps of stars that are probably part of it, and they're probably globular clusters.

If there's one thing about globular clusters, they play the long game. After all the fireworks of star formation are done, after all the dust seems to have disappeared, the globular clusters are still there. Some galaxies, like this one, just seem to have an awful lot of them. I've found globulars to be much more interesting when they are viewed like this, because I wonder if there is some way to say something about the history of a galaxy by looking at the quantity and properties of its globular clusters.

Anyway, I hope you do not mind that it is not in color. There was one exposure in another filter out of the entire dataset, but it was shorter in duration, and lacked the depth shown here, so I decided it would look worse in color than in black and white.

I found this while pondering the insignificance of my birth date by searching for observations made on the same day some years in the past.

Data from the following proposal were used to create this image: Streaming Towards Shapley: The Mass of the Richest Galaxy Concentration in the Local Universe

All channels: ACS/WFC F814W