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    • 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
    • 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)
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    • The night sky above Rubin Observatory's dome. The dense glowing band of the Milky Way appears to emanate from the top of the observatory's angular silver dome. The rest of the sky is sprinkled with the tiny white points of stars.
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