Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-Gigapixel Camera Catches Half a Million Galaxies

The Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-gigapixel digital camera captured a deep view of the cosmos, revealing over 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in the COSMOS field, located far from our galaxy, in a single, vast image. This marks a significant milestone in astronomical observation.

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