2026 August 07 - Rubin's COSMOS Field

In today's image, we see the COSMOS field which is being regularly studied by the Vera C Rubin Telescope in Chile. This is a region relatively empty of stars from our galaxy, but contains about half a million galaxies that astronomers are studying.My podcasts are available in video form through this YouTube Channel.This Podcast is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: Astronomy Picture of the Day. You can use the archive link below the image to select the photo corresponding to the date of this podcast.I welcome comments and suggestions about these podcasts. I can be reached here: [email protected] work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.