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  • Dense field of blue and yellow stars against a vibrant, glowing backdrop of orange and red nebula clouds.
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae Excerpt: Bochum 14
  • Dense cluster of bright blue stars shining like beacons against wispy nebula cloud of orange and blue. The background is filled with countless smaller stars
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae Excerpt: Messier 21
  • A globular cluster with a radiant core and a mix of blue and orange stars spread throughout against a yellow-orange background of wispy nebula clouds.
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae Excerpt: NGC 6544
  • Two pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxies glow blue and white in the foreground against a background of tiny dots, circles, and oblongs of light in various colors. Across the scene, dozens of short, multi-colored streaks flash on and off, each representing the path of an asteroid captured in Rubin data.
    Asteroids detected by Rubin
  • Rubin During First Look Observing Campaign
  • 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
  • Virgo Cluster Finder Chart (annotated)
  • Excerpts from Virgo Cluster
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • Rubin During First Look Observation Campaign (360-degree Panorama)
  • The glowing, dense band of stars of our home Milky Way galaxy appears to spill across the image from the open dome slit of Rubin Observatory at bottom right.
    Milky Road to Rubin
  • 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
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
  • NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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