Credits & Acknowledgements

Image, Data, and Software Attribution

Image Credits

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory — Virgo Cluster field showing spiral galaxies, merging systems, galaxy groups, and Milky Way stars.

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Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute) — Wide-field composite sky imaging from the Legacy Surveys project.

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Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (2024). Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld.

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DESI's instrument, a long black cylinder supported by the metal telescope framework, points at the domed ceiling. The dome interior is bathed in blue light. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

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A slice of DESI's first three years of data, the largest 3D map of our universe ever made. Credit: DESI Collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor

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DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here beneath the Milky Way. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks

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SDSS telescope at Apache Point Observatory during calibration with the cover closed and internal lamp illuminated. Credit: SDSS/David Law.

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Two of the telescopes of the Local Volume Mapper with the roof of the enclosure open. Credit: SDSS/Maximilian Haaberle.

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The SDSS telescope at Apache Point Observatory shown here in daylight. Most telescopes sit inside domes to protect them in bad weather. However the protective enclosure of the SDSS telescope is built on rollers so the building itself moves out of the way to allow the telescope to observe. Here the telescope sits on its observing platform without the protective enclosure covering it. Credit: SDSS.

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