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Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
toufka 3 hours ago [-]
The image size of this camera is unbelievably huge in its coverage.

Most telescopes take pictures of objects - this one takes pictures of the entire sky. And will do so in a time-lapse fashion for 10 years.

It's simultaneously more in line with a human's experience than an obscure wavelength of tiny object not visible to the naked eye - it takes a high-resolution picture that's similar to what you'd see if you look at the sky. But it's also profoundly grand beyond a human's experience because of just how much stuff is collected.

irickt 45 minutes ago [-]
Viewer from Aladin Sky Atlas

https://skyviewer.app/explorer

Aboutplants 21 minutes ago [-]
Stunning
1 hours ago [-]
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