A glimpse at the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A glimpse at the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

A brief excerpt from a longer video made from over 1,100 images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. It begins with a close-up of a spiral galaxy then zooms out to reveal about 10 million galaxies. Those 10 million galaxies are roughly .05% of the approximately 20 billion galaxies Rubin Observatory will capture during its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. (Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)