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Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie with the Rubin Observatory

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Trifid and Lagoon: First Light Image from Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun using its unique speed and mega camera to capture detailed images of the universe every 40 seconds. With the start of the 10-Year Legacy Surgvey of Space and Time, Rubin’s signature campaign, an ultrawide, high-definittion time-lapse movie of the cosmos is being created. Read more at U.S. National Science Foundation.

Image credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA