Answers to those questions could come from a telescope with the world’s largest digital camera, a project with initial ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest telescope in the world.

Mapping the Cosmos This image offers a closer look at the region surrounding the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae, as seen in this First Look image captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The Trifid ...

A combination of 678 different images, the photo above shows that brilliant Trifid nebula (top right) with the Lagoon nebula (bottom left), which is located more than 4,000 light-years from Earth.

A combination of 678 different images, the photo above shows that brilliant Trifid nebula (top right) with the Lagoon nebula (bottom left), which is located more than 4,000 light-years from Earth.

The Trifid Nebula is a dynamic place. Inside it, new stars are being born, creating intense radiation that sculpts the gas into the spectacular shapes seen in the image.

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details, such as the clouds of gas and dust that comprise the Trifid nebula (top) and the Lagoon nebula, which are ...

This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time. Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or ...

They’ve turned on the sky.That’s the effect of the first images unveiled from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a next-generation deep-space facility perched high atop Cerro Pachón in Chile. The ...