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  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: The video starts zoomed in on the Trifid nebula, resembling a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. We zoom out to the full view of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, with the Lagoon nebula stretching wide to the lower left, like a churning sea of magenta gas with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:14: Zoomed out to the full view, a size scale appears along the left and bottom of the image, showing the full Moon as ~1/6th of the vertical height and ~1/9th of the horizontal height. 0:17: We zoom into an area below and left of center, in the upper left portion of the Lagoon Nebula. The wispy pink clouds of gas are peppered with the tight blue and yellow points of hundreds of stars. 0:28: We zoom out to the lower right lobe of the Lagoon Nebula, a sweeping cotton-candy cloud of magenta gas shaped with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:36: We zoom in again above the lower portion of Lagoon and to the right of the upper portion. What appears as a tan background cloud in the full view is revealed to be millions of densely packed individual stars. A dark, swan-shaped cloud of dust cuts over the sparkling stellar backdrop. 0:45: We zoom out again to the full view, showing a cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes, with the comparatively small Trifid Nebula at upper right, and the sweeping Lagoon Nebula below and to the left.
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas (Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Teaser Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Teaser Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: The video starts zoomed in on the Trifid nebula, resembling a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. We zoom out to the full view of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, with the Lagoon nebula stretching wide to the lower left, like a churning sea of magenta gas with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:14: Zoomed out to the full view, a size scale appears along the left and bottom of the image, showing the full Moon as ~1/6th of the vertical height and ~1/9th of the horizontal height. 0:17: We zoom into an area below and left of center, in the upper left portion of the Lagoon Nebula. The wispy pink clouds of gas are peppered with the tight blue and yellow points of hundreds of stars. 0:28: We zoom out to the lower right lobe of the Lagoon Nebula, a sweeping cotton-candy cloud of magenta gas shaped with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:36: We zoom in again above the lower portion of Lagoon and to the right of the upper portion. What appears as a tan background cloud in the full view is revealed to be millions of densely packed individual stars. A dark, swan-shaped cloud of dust cuts over the sparkling stellar backdrop. 0:45: We zoom out again to the full view, showing a cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes, with the comparatively small Trifid Nebula at upper right, and the sweeping Lagoon Nebula below and to the left.
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae (Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies. 0:11: The view zooms out to the full scene, showing an area over 60 times the size of the full Moon filled with a few massive galaxies, dozens of large galaxies, and millions of small galaxies and stars. Our initial view now appears tiny at the right side of the full scene. 0:18: We zoom in to the left third of the scene, showing a massive elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth like a polished, glowing stone. Dozens of smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes surround it. 0:26: We pan up to a region filled with the hundreds of golden sparkling gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, up and right from center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. 0:34: The view zooms back out, and rotates clockwise to the right by about 45 degrees. We continue zooming out to show the full scene as a pill shape, filled with glittering galaxies oriented from upper left to lower right. It is surrounded by black that represents the sky that has yet to be captured by Rubin. 0:41: We complete our zoom out, and the blurred, boot-shaped figure of the Rubin Observatory building appears in the foreground. Its plus-shaped field of view is overlaid on the pill-shaped area of galaxies, about one-third its size. The field of view moves and flashes in a tiling pattern to the right of the pill shape, representing Rubin snapping images of new areas of sky.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies. 0:11: The view zooms out to the full scene, showing an area over 60 times the size of the full Moon filled with a few massive galaxies, dozens of large galaxies, and millions of small galaxies and stars. Our initial view now appears tiny at the right side of the full scene. 0:18: We zoom in to the left third of the scene, showing a massive elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth like a polished, glowing stone. Dozens of smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes surround it. 0:26: We pan up to a region filled with the hundreds of golden sparkling gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, up and right from center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. 0:34: The view zooms back out, and rotates clockwise to the right by about 45 degrees. We continue zooming out to show the full scene as a pill shape, filled with glittering galaxies oriented from upper left to lower right. It is surrounded by black that represents the sky that has yet to be captured by Rubin. 0:41: We complete our zoom out, and the blurred, boot-shaped figure of the Rubin Observatory building appears in the foreground. Its plus-shaped field of view is overlaid on the pill-shaped area of galaxies, about one-third its size. The field of view moves and flashes in a tiling pattern to the right of the pill shape, representing Rubin snapping images of new areas of sky.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start with a sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. We zoom in on a star toward the top. A square labeled “A variable star” calls it out, before two grayscale panels pop out the right, one after the other. The first shows the star’s initial brightness, while the second panel shows it 30% brighter half an hour later. 0:24: We zoom out and away, and then into a different region to the lower left. Another variable star is identified, and two more grayscale panels appear showing the star increasing in brightness by 11% after just 12 minutes. 0:38: We zoom out and away again, and then into a different region back to the upper right. Here, the variable star identified increases in brightness by 21% over half an hour. 0:50: As we zoom out to the full view, all of the 46 variable stars in the view are highlighted with teal circles. The circles pulse in size according to the real changes in brightness of their associated star.
    Rhythms in the Stars (Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start with a sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. We zoom in on a star toward the top. A square labeled “A variable star” calls it out, before two grayscale panels pop out the right, one after the other. The first shows the star’s initial brightness, while the second panel shows it 30% brighter half an hour later. 0:24: We zoom out and away, and then into a different region to the lower left. Another variable star is identified, and two more grayscale panels appear showing the star increasing in brightness by 11% after just 12 minutes. 0:38: We zoom out and away again, and then into a different region back to the upper right. Here, the variable star identified increases in brightness by 21% over half an hour. 0:50: As we zoom out to the full view, all of the 46 variable stars in the view are highlighted with teal circles. The circles pulse in size according to the real changes in brightness of their associated star.
    Rhythms in the Stars (Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start with a sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. Rubin’s field of view is overlaid as a plus-shaped grid. A rectangle panel expands from the center right to show the grayscale sequence of the point of light of an asteroid moving left to right across the background. 0:12: Another panel expands from the right to show another asteroid moving left to right. 0:13: Yet another panel expands from the top with another asteroid moving diagonally to the upper right. 0:15: Six more panels with moving asteroids expand, to form a grid of nine. 0:20: Many more panels expand, forming a grid of 36. 0:28: The panels disappear, showing the original field of galaxies. Now, about 1000 teal dots appear on screen, representing Rubin’s discoveries on night 1 of observations. They’re generally moving toward the upper right at a leisurely pace. There are a few dots in purple and yellow, representing other types of Solar System objects. 0:32: More and more dots continue to appear as time progresses from night 1 to night 7, totaling 2104 objects. They’re mostly teal, representing main belt asteroids, but there are a couple dozen purple and yellow dots too. 0:42: The view rotates clockwise by about 45 degrees and zooms out to show the direction of observations and the objects detected from the perspective of Earth, seen in the foreground 0:45: The view continues to zoom out to show a bird’s eye view of the Solar System. Earth’s orbit is a circle inside the donut shape of the main asteroid belt filled with millions of dots. Rubin’s new detections are highlighted using the same colors as before, now seen as a narrow 3D cone shape extending from Earth out into the Solar System toward the top of the video.
    A Swarm of New Asteroids (Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start with a sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. Rubin’s field of view is overlaid as a plus-shaped grid. A rectangle panel expands from the center right to show the grayscale sequence of the point of light of an asteroid moving left to right across the background. 0:12: Another panel expands from the right to show another asteroid moving left to right. 0:13: Yet another panel expands from the top with another asteroid moving diagonally to the upper right. 0:15: Six more panels with moving asteroids expand, to form a grid of nine. 0:20: Many more panels expand, forming a grid of 36. 0:28: The panels disappear, showing the original field of galaxies. Now, about 1000 teal dots appear on screen, representing Rubin’s discoveries on night 1 of observations. They’re generally moving toward the upper right at a leisurely pace. There are a few dots in purple and yellow, representing other types of Solar System objects. 0:32: More and more dots continue to appear as time progresses from night 1 to night 7, totaling 2104 objects. They’re mostly teal, representing main belt asteroids, but there are a couple dozen purple and yellow dots too. 0:42: The view rotates clockwise by about 45 degrees and zooms out to show the direction of observations and the objects detected from the perspective of Earth, seen in the foreground 0:45: The view continues to zoom out to show a bird’s eye view of the Solar System. Earth’s orbit is a circle inside the donut shape of the main asteroid belt filled with millions of dots. Rubin’s new detections are highlighted using the same colors as before, now seen as a narrow 3D cone shape extending from Earth out into the Solar System toward the top of the video.
    A Swarm of New Asteroids (Video-ES)
  • A sprawling, textured field of galaxies is scattered across the deep black of space. The scene stretches wide, over 60 times the area of the full Moon. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. At center left lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. At center top, another smooth elliptical galaxy is oriented horizontally, with a wispy tail extending right. At right, a group of interacting galaxies is connected by delicate streams of stars like spider silk, suggesting past interactions. All throughout the image, millions of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black. Zooming in reveals ever more fainter and smaller smudges of various colors between the larger and brighter objects. These are all distant or small galaxies, initially hidden in the black of space, but now revealed. In all, there are about 10 million galaxies in this image.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest
  • A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
    Cosmic Drama (Image)
  • Virgo Cluster Finder Chart (annotated)
  • A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
    Cosmic Abundance (Image)
  • Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae Finder Chart (annotated)
  • A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.
    Trifid and Lagoon (Image)
  • Excerpts from Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae
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