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The largest 2D sky map includes nearly four billion objects

The largest 2D sky map includes nearly four billion objects

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The map, made up of 263,407 exposures taken over 2,285 nights and containing 5.6 trillion pixels, covers about 75% of the sky and is used by DESI to select galaxies and quasars for 3D mapping of the universe and to study dark energy.
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.
The Crystal Ball Nebula, NGC 1514, as photographed with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. At the center of the nebula is a binary system of two stars, shaped by the envelope of gas ejected from one of them in the final stages of its life. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA.

Gemini Telescope Reveals Crystal Ball Nebula: Light from a Dying Star That Began Its Journey to Us About 1,500 Years Ago

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A new image of NGC 1514 from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii reveals an asymmetric envelope of gas around a two-star system, showing a late stage in the life of a Sun-like star.
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.
Left: The star field around the host galaxy of GRB 250702B; Right: A close-up of the galaxy from the Gemini North telescope, after more than two hours of observation, with the galaxy still appearing faint due to dust. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA.

Record-breaking gamma-ray burst lasts more than seven hours, challenging existing explanations

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Infrared and optical observations from NOIRLab and Gemini observatories indicate a relativistic jet formed in an extremely dense and dusty environment in a massive galaxy
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
Artist's impression of the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes: Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merger of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long been predicted, but never observed. This pair provides insight into why such an event seems so unlikely in the universe. Credit: NOIR LAB

Astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of black holes ever found

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Data from the Gemini North Telescope provide a possible explanation for the halting of the merger of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a galaxy
This figure illustrates how an interstellar object is rapidly approaching our solar system. Ejected from its home planet system long ago, the object traveled through interstellar space for billions of years before passing briefly in our cosmic neighborhood. The Robin Observatory will reveal many of these unknown interstellar visitors.

Visitors from distant stars: The Rubin Observatory will detect a multitude of interstellar objects moving through our solar system

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The Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will revolutionize solar system science by discovering a population of previously undiscovered interstellar comets and asteroids passing through the neighborhood
The cosmic Bat Nebula is spectacular: interstellar wings, colors, and clouds in the process of star formation.

Double Nebula: The Chameleon Nebula Imaged by the Gemini South Telescope

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Astronomers capture an image of the nebula located at the center of the Chameleon I dark cloud, one of the star-forming regions closest to the Milky Way.
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