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- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has released a stacked image of the COSMOS field containing over 500,000 galaxies and more than 50,000 stars, captured with its 3.2-gigapixel LSST Camera, the largest digital camera ever built.
- The image was made by combining hundreds of individual exposures and marks the observatory's Early Data Preview 2, its first data release from LSST Camera observations.
- The COSMOS field has been studied for over two decades and offers a clean view of distant galaxies, some whose light has travelled for billions of years.
- The image is part of Rubin's ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which aims to create the most detailed continuously updated record of the universe ever attempted.
What to watch next
- Future Rubin observations of COSMOS expected to reveal fainter galaxies and sharper details
- Repeated visits to the region over coming years expected to uncover short-lived cosmic events such as supernovae
- Further data releases from the ten-year LSST survey covering about one-sixth of the visible Southern Hemisphere
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Named Chile · United States · COSMOS field · Hubble Space Telescope · Milky Way · Bob Blum · LSST Camera · NSF NOIRLab · Simonyi Survey Telescope · US Department of Energy’s Office of Science · US National Science Foundation · Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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