[Red Badger]

PING!........................

[Magnum44]

[Dr. Sivana]

And here I was expecting something from the new Apple iPad Max-squared.

[montag813]

Look at those galaxies. How could we possibly be alone?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Uh oh. Bad naming!

[BEJ]

Stunningly beautiful.

[ScottHammett]

The Heavens declare the glory of God

[ryderann]

This rates a double “Holy Cow!!”

[decal]

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”

[dragnet2]

Not bad for an 800 million dollar telescope/cameras

The star-forming Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The Trifid Nebula is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars, an emission nebula (the pink region), a reflection nebula (the blue region), and a dark nebula (the dark regions).Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

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Here's my Trifid Nebula - M20, at approximately 5,000 light years distance.

Credit; FAFO Observatory

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[zeestephen]

Wiki has some great photos of the construction and completed telescope.

Also, some very helpful illustrations of the equpment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory

[dadfly]

beautiful! the more we see; the more we marvel. it’s all magnificent, Lord Jesus.

[GingisK]

The stars, like dust...

[jerod]

So what you're saying is... Van Gogh nailed it, even without a telescope.

[algore]

really cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory

[Nateman]

Life-size model of the Rubin Observatory focal plane array. The array's diameter is 64 cm, and will provide 3.2 gigapixels per image. The image of the Moon (30 arcminutes) is present to show the scale of the field of view. The model is held by Suzanne Jacoby, the Rubin Observatory communications director.

[rktman]

Microscope looking at covid germs or something.

[Chewbarkah]

Most people associate Rene Descartes with “I think therefore I am”, but he also developed the idea of space being filled with vortices. If proof is needed of his genius for deduction, the posted images should do.

[Jane Long]

I see a couple of Van Gogh swirls, in that Starry Starry night image.