File:NGC 4410 imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.png

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Description	English: NGC 4410 imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Date	23 June 2025
Source	https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2521a/
Author	RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

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Source	NSF's NOIRLab
Credit/Provider	RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
Short title	The Cosmic Treasure Chest
Image title	Welcome to Rubin's cosmic treasure chest! Introducing the first riches from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s cosmic treasure chest, a wealth of data that will help scientists make countless new discoveries about our Universe. This image, one of the first released by Rubin Observatory, exposes a Universe teeming with stars and galaxies — transforming seemingly empty, inky-black pockets of space into glittering tapestries for the first time. Only Rubin can quickly produce such large images with this much color and richness. Here, Rubin’s view is focused on the southern region of the Virgo Cluster, about 55 million light-years away from Earth and the nearest large collection of galaxies to our own Milky Way. What's in this image? The image offers a stunning variety of objects — from bright stars ranging from blue to red in color, to nearby blue spiral galaxies, to distant red galaxy groups — demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data. During the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, scientists around the world will access Rubin’s treasure trove of data to address questions like: How did the Milky Way form? What makes up the 95% of the Universe we can’t see? What will a detailed inventory of Solar System objects reveal? What will we learn from watching hundreds of millions of changes in the night sky over 10 years? Apart from a few foreground stars in our own Milky Way, the myriad specks of light captured here make up a rich tapestry of about 10 million galaxies— just 0.05% of the roughly 20 billion galaxies Rubin will image during its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). By the end of the survey, Rubin will have revealed this level of detail across the entire southern sky. How was the image created? In addition to showcasing the richness and variety of celestial light in (this area),this deep, 15-square-degree image provides a sample of the way Rubin will observe during the main survey. Each individual exposure taken by Rubin Observatory covers 10 square degrees, (about 45 full moons). Combining multiple exposures of the same place on the sky — taken at different times and with different color filters — reveals extremely faint details that wouldn’t be captured in a single exposure. The 1185 exposures combined to make this image were taken over a period of just 7 nights. Rubin Observatory is the only astronomical tool in existence that can assemble an image this wideand deep so quickly. The bright stars scattered throughout this image belong to our home galaxy. By tracking their positions, brightness, and for some, even their motion over time, Rubin will help map the Milky Way in extraordinary detail — revealing its structure, history, and how it has evolvedover time. With observations of never-before-seen stellar streams, dwarf galaxies, and more, Rubin data will help scientists investigate the dynamic past of our cosmic neighborhood. In Rubin Observatory’s Skyviewer tool, you can use the “display” setting to toggle between a view with and without asteroids, which appear as multicolored streaks. These moving asteroids in our Solar System were captured by Rubin's fast system at a different location in each exposure, and this is how they look when the exposures are combined. Rubin’s wide field and frequent imaging make it uniquely capableof detecting and tracking asteroids, comets, and distant trans-Neptunian objects — building a detailed inventory of our Solar System and helping protect Earth by alerting scientists to potentially hazardous objects. What's coming next This image also offers a starting point for watching the ever-changing sky. Rubin will return to this same region many times over the coming decade, catching brief but important events like supernova explosions and the flares from stars as they are consumed by hungry black holes. Rubin’s software will automatically compare new images to templates built fromprevious images, identifying up to 10 million changes each night and providing insight into short-lived cosmic phenomena and objects in motion. On the largest scales, scientists will use Rubin’s observations of galaxies like those seen here to investigate two of the Universe’s biggest mysteries:dark matter and dark energy. By mapping the shapes and distributions of galaxies over time, scientists can infer the underlying structure of dark matter and observe how the expansion of the Universe is being influenced by dark energy. The image was captured by Rubin Observatory using the 3200-megapixel LSST Camera — the largest digital camera in the world. Rubin Observatory will scan the sky every night for 10 years, creating an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our Universe. We invite you to zoom in and explore this image in more detail, or take a tour that highlightssome noteworthy features using Rubin’s SkyViewer. Explore Rubin’s cosmic treasure chest in detail.
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