Despite decades of searching, scientists still haven’t found the elusive substance that holds galaxies together: dark matter.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released its first images, captured using the world’s largest digital camera, kicking off a 10-year mission to explore the changing universe in stunning detail.

The image can not only be zoomed in to study regions where stars form at the same scale of an individual star, but also zoomed out to study the entire galaxy.

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

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The largest digital camera ever built, it will photograph the entire southern sky in three nights. In just one night, it found 1,200 unknown asteroids.