Vera Rubin observatory reveals stunning first images

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Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly discovered asteroids have been revealed in the first deep space images captured by the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile. More than two decades in the making, the $800 million US-funded telescope sits atop Cerro Pachon in central Chile, where dark skies and dry