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A car-sized camera captures the cosmos.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released the first images taken by its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera — the largest digital camera ever made — ahead of starting its 10-year survey of the southern sky. You can read up on details about these shots in PetaPixel’s report, and more images and video will be released later today following a Rubin Observatory livestream at 11AM ET.

<em>This shot, showing the Trifid nebula (top right) and the Lagoon nebula (center) combines 678 separate images.</em>
<em>Here’s a cropped in shot showing a closer look at the Lagoon nebula.</em>
<em>A view of the Virgo cluster, showing two prominent spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right).</em>
<em>A closer look at an area in the Virgo Cluster image.</em>
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This shot, showing the Trifid nebula (top right) and the Lagoon nebula (center) combines 678 separate images.
Image: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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