KOSMOS

😮 You’re looking at the first images from the 3.2-gigapixel camera at the heart of the Vera Rubin Observatory — and in one single frame, millions of galaxies were discovered.

Built atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, the massive LSST camera snapped these test observations over 10 hours — capturing swirls of nebulae, dense galaxy clusters and over 2,000 previously unknown asteroids.

With a field of view wider than seven full moons and enough resolution to map the Southern sky every few nights, this is not just an image — it’s the dawn of a 10-year cosmic time-lapse.

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he Dymaxion map projection