This image of the Trifid nebula (top right) and the Lagoon nebula, combines 678 separate images taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time.
Elizabeth Ryland fields questions from the audience after giving a public lecture,"Searching for Trolls Under the Electron Bridge," in SLAC's Kavli Auditorium. SLAC public lectures are designed to give non-scientists unique insights into the workings of our universe.
In this conceptual art, an electron and positron collide, resulting in a B meson (not shown) and an antimatter B-bar meson, which then decays into a D meson and a tau lepton as well as a smaller antineutrino.