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An ocean of stars. This is one of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's ten-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time! The image covers a region of space about 3°, six times the width of a full Moon—only a tiny portion of the gigantic survey Rubin has embarked upon. Open it up!

This scene shows a dense starfield in the mid-southern-sky constellation Lupus. Most of these stars are in the Milky Way; the brighter ones (of varying temperatures, sizes, and ages) are closer. Faint wisps of dust form cirrus cloud-like patches. More distant galaxies are also visible.