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This cosmic image of two nebulas shows a bright pink splotch in the middle and lots of points of light speckling the whole scene.

This picture of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas combines 678 images taken by the Vera Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours. During the observatory’s 10-year survey, scientists will combine thousands of images of the same patches of sky. Those stacked images will make bright spots brighter and dark spots darker, allowing fainter and more distant objects to pop.

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By Lisa Grossman

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