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More than half a million galaxies in the picture: Rubin Observatory opens the COSMOS field to science

More than half a million galaxies in the picture: Rubin Observatory opens the COSMOS field to science

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The image, created by combining hundreds of observations from the LSST camera, also contains more than 50 stars. Its release is accompanied by the observatory's first science catalog based on the giant camera, as part of a data preview.
Sunset, just before the Vera Rubin Telescope begins nighttime operations. Photo courtesy of NSF

The Rubin Observatory's giant camera is underway, and its goal is: "To answer one question - what is the universe?"

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The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun publishing its first discoveries – supernovae, variable stars and asteroids – ahead of the launch of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a ten-year sky survey.
Asteroids in the central asteroid belt. Illustration NOIRLAB

Rubin Observatory detects giant asteroid spinning at record speed – suggesting it is “rock solid”

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The first scientific article with data from the LSST camera describes a body with a diameter of about 710 meters that completes a full rotation every 1.88 minutes, demonstrating the ability of the Rubin Observatory to detect extreme phenomena in the solar system.
Illustration of two colliding asteroids. Credit: Europlanet / T. Roger

Gaia solves the mystery of asteroid rotation: Collisions and internal friction reveal the structure of "debris piles"

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Analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission reveals a sharp gap in the rotation patterns of asteroids – the result of a struggle between collisions and internal friction – and provides a new tool for deciphering the internal structure
The faint glow of individual stars lingering between two bright galaxies indicates that the galaxies are in an active merger—and that the galaxy clusters around them are also merging. The image was assembled from the entire 28 hours of observations by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam), built for the U.S. Department of Energy and mounted on the National Science Foundation (NSF) 4-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Toluolo Inter-American Observatory. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Ghostly bridge of stolen stars reveals galactic 'tug of war'

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A million-light-year-long intracluster light bridge in the Abell 3667 cluster provides the first optical evidence of an aggressive merger between the cluster's two brightest galaxies—hinting at an ancient merger of two clusters
Ben-Gurion and Roger Penrose in a quantum test for Einstein: "Quantum Galileo" examines the equivalence principle

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