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The powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing some of its first images as part of an ambitious effort to effectively create a movie of all the changes in the southern night sky over a decade.

On some evenings the rising Moon seems to swell into a glowing disk that dwarfs city skylines and mountain ridges, as if it has suddenly crept closer to Earth. The effect is so striking that it fuels ...