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Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field (rubinobservatory.org)
toufka 4 hours ago [-]
The image size of this camera is unbelievably huge in its coverage.

Most telescopes take pictures of objects - this one takes pictures of the entire sky. And will do so in a time-lapse fashion for 10 years.

It's simultaneously more in line with a human's experience than an obscure wavelength of tiny object not visible to the naked eye - it takes a high-resolution picture that's similar to what you'd see if you look at the sky. But it's also profoundly grand beyond a human's experience because of just how much stuff is collected.

irickt 2 hours ago [-]
Viewer from Aladin Sky Atlas

https://skyviewer.app/explorer

relaxer 15 minutes ago [-]
Just beautiful. Idk why, some part of me feels there's repeating fractals that differ in large chunks of time.

At the same time somehow every chunk is genuinely different. So much space my mind wants there to be a trick of some kind that reduces it

Aboutplants 1 hours ago [-]
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