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Spinoza would've loved to see this.

The human-sized L1 lens of the Rubin Observatory camera, or the first lens of the observatory's telescope, at 1.55 m in diameter, the largest lens ever built.

#Astronomy #RubinFirstLook #NightSkyViewer
L1 lens, 2018 photo by LSST ( Large Synoptic Survey Telescope ) first put into service this year, in June 2025 • CC BY 4.0 via Wikipedia
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Some galaxies love to hog the spotlight, but sometimes we see past them! 🔭

In this image from the #RubinFirstLook Cosmic Treasure Chest, a distant galaxy peeks from behind a large foreground galaxy.

This "layered" view helps scientists understand the 3D structure of the Universe 🌌🔭🧪
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
vrubinobs.bsky.social
Come to the dark side... 😼

We're looking at dark nebulae in the #RubinFirstLook image of the Trifid & Lagoon Nebulae. Dark nebulae are clouds of gas and dust that are so dense they block visible light. This makes them appear black against their colorful, cloudy background. ☁️🔭🧪
A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan, blue, and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. At center, the Trifid Nebula resembles a flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. A churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue pinpricks sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Short tendrils of dark dust etch the magenta backdrop like scratches in a smooth surface. A churning sea of magenta gas sandwiched by a tan backdrop made of countless stars. Bright blue, knotted clumps are sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. A vast yet narrow dust lane sweeps down the left side of the image, like a slash in a tapestry. Additional short features of dark dust cut the magenta gas like scratches in a smooth surface.
September 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
vrubinobs.bsky.social
With SkySynth, the #RubinFirstLook images are ear-resistable 👂✨

SkySynth transforms the Virgo Cluster into a sparkling symphony of science! 🔭 🧪 Instead of conveying data visually, a sonification like SkySynth translates data into sound.

Listen now: skyviewer.app/skysynth
Experience NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of the Virgo Cluster through sound 🎶
With Skysynth, the #RubinFirstLook images are ear-resistable 👂✨ SkySynth transforms NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's image of the Virgo Cluster into a sparkling symphony of science! 🧪 Instead of…
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September 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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🚀 Big week for the Rubin Observatory! 🌌 Hundreds joined in Tucson & online to explore new data, celebrate #RubinFirstLook images, and mark key milestones. Next: the decade-long LSST starts later this year! 🔭✨ #Astronomy #SpaceScience #RubinObservatory #LSST #Telescope
vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Aug 8
What. A. Week. 🤩

We spent last week with hundreds of #RubinTeam members in Tucson, AZ and virtually around the world diving into NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data and science together!

This was the first week-long workshop we've held since the first early data and images from Rubin in June. 🔭🧪
August 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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We recapped an incredible past year installing final observatory components, premiering #RubinFirstLook images, and beginning the months-long commissioning phase ✨

But we didn't only look back! We also looked forward to the start of the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time later this year 🔭🧪
August 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of the Virgo Cluster is full of galaxy clusters: collections of gravitationally-bound galaxies ✨ They can be identified as similarly colored smudges concentrated together.

Here, we can see three different clusters at different distances. #RubinFirstLook 🔭🧪
A glittering tapestry of thousands of galaxies in varying sizes, shapes, and colors. At center is a distinct collection of galaxies, all of a similar yellow color. A glittering tapestry of thousands of galaxies in varying sizes, shapes, and colors. At center is a distinct collection of galaxies, all of a similar orange color. A glittering tapestry of thousands of galaxies in varying sizes, shapes, and colors. At center is a distinct collection of galaxies, all of a similar red color.
July 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
vrubinobs.bsky.social
Ever been to a party so good you couldn’t stop talking about it?

Same here 🥳

#RubinFirstLook was unforgettable, and made even more incredible thanks to 360+ Watch Parties around the world celebrating with us on June 23! 🔭🧪

Enjoy this trip down memory lane with us 🤩
July 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
aura-astronomy.bsky.social
It's #WallpaperWednesday again! Get your #RubinFirstLook background here!
vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jul 2
#WallpaperWednesday: #RubinFirstLook edition 🤩

Need a new phone background? Loved the first images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory?

We've got you! Save one of these to use, set it, and enjoy the cosmos captured by Rubin every time you use your phone 🌌🔭🧪
A field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and left of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes to the left of the entangled mass of a triple merger. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. A field of galaxies scattered across the black of space. It is filled with galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. Like spider silk, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath. A tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the lower right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its pink gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark veins of dust. To the upper left, the larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout Dense cluster of bright blue stars shining like beacons against wispy nebula cloud of orange and blue. The background is filled with countless smaller stars.
July 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🎧 Prof. Paweł Pietrukowicz opowiedział o Obserwatorium im. Very C. Rubin @vrubinobs.bsky.social w Radiu Kampus:
▶️ radiokampus.fm/podcasty/kam...
▶️ youtu.be/B8z7fwW408Y
🔎 Zdjęcia ➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer
📷 Gromada w Pannie. Źródło: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
July 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The final sessions of Day 1 of #NAM2025 are now kicking off.

They include one on the 'early science with Rubin LSST in 2025'. Only last month we got the #RubinFirstLook at the cosmos, which was captured by the revolutionary telescope @vrubinobs.bsky.social‬.

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The audience listens in on the 'early science with Rubin LSST in 2025' session at NAM 2025. The talk on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
July 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook
NOIRLabAstro
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First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook
YouTube video by NOIRLabAstro
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July 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Primeras Imágenes del Observatorio Vera C. Rubin NSF–DOE | #RubinFirstLook
NOIRLabAstro
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Primeras Imágenes del Observatorio Vera C. Rubin NSF–DOE | #RubinFirstLook
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July 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
vrubinobs.bsky.social
Our favorite kinds of fireworks are the cosmic kind 🌟🎆

Our #RubinFirstLook image of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae has plenty of cosmic fireworks to explore! Let the bright, young stars in these clusters add some sparkle to your #FourthOfJuly holiday ✨🔭🧪

📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Obs.
Dense field of blue and yellow stars against a vibrant, glowing backdrop of orange and red nebula clouds. Dense cluster of bright blue stars shining like beacons against wispy nebula cloud of orange and blue. The background is filled with countless smaller stars. Image of a globular cluster with a radiant core and a mix of blue and orange stars spread throughout against a yellow-orange background of wispy nebula clouds.
July 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#WallpaperWednesday: #RubinFirstLook edition 🤩

Need a new phone background? Loved the first images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory?

We've got you! Save one of these to use, set it, and enjoy the cosmos captured by Rubin every time you use your phone 🌌🔭🧪
A field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and left of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes to the left of the entangled mass of a triple merger. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. A field of galaxies scattered across the black of space. It is filled with galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. Like spider silk, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath. A tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the lower right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its pink gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark veins of dust. To the upper left, the larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout Dense cluster of bright blue stars shining like beacons against wispy nebula cloud of orange and blue. The background is filled with countless smaller stars.
July 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
astroroyalscot.bsky.social
My guess is that these two distinct stats got distorted/merged in some minds & then incorrectly shared, in amongst all the excitement about #RubinFirstLook, with the BBC journalist. In the future our #scicomm must be better. Great that BBCR4 More or Less exists though to issue these corrections! 🔭
July 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Star Trails over Rubin

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
@vrubinobs.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social
noirlab.edu/public/image... #RubinFirstLook 🧪 🔭
Star trails are seen over NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this timelapse image captured during First Look observation activities in April 2025.
July 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
astroroyalscot.bsky.social
Any teachers/parents looking for some fun space activities for their class/kids? Check out the @vrubinobs.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook resources. I particularly like the colouring-in book and #SpaceSurveyors game.

👉: rubinobservatory.org/education/fi...
🎮: spacesurveyors.app

🔭🎢👩‍🔬 #scicomm
A black and white line drawing from a colouring-in book. It has 7 different and diverse people standing in front of the Vera Rubin Telescope building, all smiling. In the middle is Vera Rubin. The text reads "Vera and friends. A great scientist can come from anywhere. Rubin Observatory makes it possible for everyone who wants to explore the Universe (just like Vera would have wanted). A screen shot of a computer game where you have to move the Rubin camera field of view around the sky to discover new objects, but avoid the clouds!
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
pomarede.bsky.social
Rubin with M41 during First Look Observations

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
noirlab.edu/public/image... @vrubinobs.bsky.social @noirlabastro.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook 🧪🔭
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is seen with its dome open during First Look observation activities in April 2025. Messier 41, the Little Beehive Cluster, can be seen over the telescope in this telelens photo. Image released June 23, 2025.
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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The #RubinFirstLook has us 🤩

"These images mark the beginning of an avalanche of data," said IPAC Manager David Imel.

At IPAC, we've been developing the Science User Interface and Tools for the Rubin LSST Science Platform.

Read about IPAC & @vrubinobs.bsky.social: ipac.caltech.edu/project/rubin
June 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Found one of my favorite spots exploring @vrubin.bsk.social Skyview!! The amount of galaxies in this image is incredible! 🌌🔭

#RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos

➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer?tar...
Galaxies zoomed in the Virgo Cluster
June 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Image credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

NOIRLab Press release➡️ noirlab.edu/public/news/...

More➡️ rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

🔭 🧪 #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility unveils its first imagery and brings the night sky to life like never before.
noirlab.edu
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
drnereide.bsky.social
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The first images from the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory are here, and they are breathtaking!

This spectacular image shows only a small section of total view of the Virgo Cluster, 55 Mly away.

ONLY A SMALL SECTION!

➡️ noirlab.edu/public/image...

🔭 🧪 #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos
The image shows a small corner of total view of the Virgo Cluster, 55 Mly away. Visible are two notable spiral galaxies (NGC 4411b, left and NCG 4411a, right), a group of three merging galaxies (RSCG 55), galaxy groups both near and distant, stars within our own galaxy, and much more.
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Glemte å legge ut linken med thumbnail, så her er den😄🤓 www.space.com/astronomy/ve... #astronomy #capturethecosmos #rubinfirstlook #astronomi #astrofoto #astrophoto #astrophotography #vitenskap #science #research #astrofotografi
Vera C Rubin Observatory reveals 1st stunning images of the cosmos. Scientists are 'beyond excited about what's coming'
"We enter the era of astro-cinematography."
www.space.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
simg.bsky.social
Første bilde fra verdens største kamera, #LSST Camera ved NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin-observatoriet i Chile, avslører tusenvis av astroider, og millioner av galakser☺️☄️🌌 Gjennom ti år skal LSST ta bilde av rundt 20 mrd galakser!🪐🌟 www.space.com/astronomy/ve... #astronomy #capturethecosmos #rubinfirstlook
June 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM