The telescope in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with the world’s biggest digital astronomy camera – a 3.2-gigapixel monster known as the LSST Camera.
What you’re seeing isn’t just a still photo – it’s the start of a 10-year, ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse movie of the universe.
Every few nights, Rubin will re-image the sky, capturing galaxies, nebulae, stars, asteroids – and anything that moves or changes.
This image captures a small section of NSF – DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster, offering a vivid glimpse of the variety in the cosmos. Visible are two prominent spiral galaxies, three merging galaxies, galaxy groups both near and distant, stars within our own Milky Way, and much more.
