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🌌 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has captured its first stunning images, marking a major milestone in our quest to map the universe in unprecedented detail. From dark matter to distant galaxies — Rubin is just getting started!

In ~10 hrs of commissioning, the world's largest 3.2 Gpixel Camera imaged nebulae (Trifid & Lagoon), the Virgo Cluster, and uncovered twinkles of light that are thousands of new asteroids in our Solar System! This is just the start of Rubin’s decade‑long mission to catalog ~20 billion galaxies, track transient events, and probe dark matter & energy!
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Here are the first-ever images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.