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  • Conceptual illustration of a multi-messenger astrophysical event. In the top left, two neutron stars are colliding in a bright blue burst of energy. The collision emits several different types of signals, which are being detected by different telescopes and facilities illustrated on Earth in the lower right. Gravitational waves are represented by bright and dark bands spiraling outward from the colliding neutron stars. Subatomic particles called neutrinos radiate from the collision as dashed lines, and light radiates as squiggly lines. A meandering, looping solid line that comes from somewhere else beyond the collision represents a cosmic ray, which expands into a fan-shaped spray at the Earth’s atmosphere.
    Artist’s Illustration of Multi-Messenger Event
  • Nora Shipp discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to the study of stellar streams
  • Nora Shipp discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to the study of stellar streams
  • An artist’s impression of streams of stars around a galaxy. The galaxy occupies most of the image as a fuzzy blue-white oval with spiral features extending out clockwise. The light clouds are interspersed with small dark brown splotches in the same spiral pattern around the center, representing dust clouds. The galaxy’s center is a bright yellow glow. Overlaid on top of and surrounding the galaxy are several criss-crossing, faint tendrils of stars that represent satellite dwarf galaxies and star clusters that have been stretched out into long thin lines. The tendrils have various lengths and widths, though all are arcs rather than complete circles. The background is black.
    Artist’s Impression: Stellar streams in and around the Milky Way
  • Rubin Observatory under a starry night sky. The observatory sits on top of its rocky summit site in the foreground, and is made of a long white building that extends to the left and a silver angular dome sticking up. The Milky Way is visible, spanning the image horizontally above the observatory as a dense stream of stars interspersed with dark and wispy dust clouds. The yellow glow of city lights in La Serena are seen in the distance to the lower left.
    Rubin Observatory Under the Milky Way
  • An illustration of the path that light from distant galaxies might take through the cosmic web. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. Three bright teal squiggly lines spider out toward the right from three small illustrated galaxies slightly left of center, representing a squiggly path that light might take. The squiggly lines end at a pair of illustrated galaxies, one teal and one white. The teal version shows the true shape and position of the galaxy as it would have been seen without weak gravitational lensing effects. The white version represents the galaxy’s observed shape and position, slightly elongated and offset compared to the teal.
    The effects of the Universe's large-scale structure on the light from distant galaxies
  • An illustration of galaxies scattered across the cosmic web. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. There are about 15 galaxies scattered around the image. Each galaxy is actually a pair of illustrations offset from each other, showing two different shapes and positions for the same galaxy. The teal version of the galaxy is generally a circular or oval shape, representing its true shape and position before its light has traveled through the Universe. The white version of the galaxy is offset slightly in a direction and elongated or distorted compared to the teal.
    The effects of weak gravitational lensing by the Universe's large-scale structure
  • An illustrated video demonstrating the weak gravitational lensing effects of the Universe's large scale structure that distort the observed shapes and positions of distant galaxies. The video begins with a single white illustrated galaxy in the center as an elongated oval shape, representing the observation of a distant galaxy. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. The camera perspective rotates to the left, conveying a sense of 3D. The web-like background fades, and another smaller illustrated galaxy shape appears to the left, representing the origin of the distant galaxy's light. This distant galaxy wobbles and wiggles toward the final observed galaxy on the right, representing how light from that galaxy traveled through space and ending at that single white galaxy from the beginning of the video. The camera rotates back to the original perspective, and a circular teal version of the observed galaxy appears offset from the oval white version, representing the true shape and position of the galaxy if its light had not been bent by weak gravitational lensing. Finally, a dozen additional white and teal galaxy pairs appear all around the image. The white version of each galaxy is offset slightly and elongated or distorted compared to the teal version.
    The effects of weak gravitational lensing by the Universe's large-scale structure on the observed shapes and positions of galaxies.
  • An animated illustration of the solar system showing the paths of the two confirmed interstellar objects. The solar system spans most of the image and has two distinct regions. The outer Kuiper Belt region is a large, fuzzy donut of thousands of icy asteroids and comets spanning half of the total radius of the full solar system illustration. The inner region contains the orbits of the eight planets, drawn as white concentric circles viewed from a slightly elevated angle so they appear as ovals. The path of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, is a red V-shape that opens to the top right, with its closest point to the Sun inside Mercury’s orbit. The path of the second interstellar object, Borisov, is a teal U-shape that opens to the top right, wider than 'Oumuamua's V, with its closest point to the Sun outside Mars’s orbit. After a few seconds, the view rotates counterclockwise to demonstrate the Solar System's 3D nature. At 15 seconds, the view rotates back clockwise. At 27 seconds, the view tilts away from us and zooms out.
    Confirmed Interstellar Object Paths Video
  • An artist’s impression of a small, rocky interstellar object hurtling from the upper right toward the inner Solar System. The orbits of the four inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are fully visible, drawn as teal concentric circles around the bright ball of the Sun at the center. We see the orbits from a slightly elevated angle, so that the circular paths appear oval. The black background is sprinkled with points of starlight. The interstellar object looks like an elongated potato above the Sun, streaming toward the Sun from the upper right, with a short tail of gas and dust trailing behind.
    Interstellar object rapidly approaching our Solar System
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