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  • An illustration of a telescope inside an observatory dome observing the night sky. The telescope structure on the left is short and squat, somewhat vase-shaped with a rounded bottom. The sky it's observing is sprinkled with points representing stars. Three of the stars are larger and brighter with eight points, representing variable stars increasing in brightness. A set of cables run from the bottom of the telescope to two screens. The left screen shows an illustration of a light curve, a squiggling line showing increasing and decreasing brightness over time. The right screen shows a cutout illustration of a star and its interior, like an orange missing a slice.
    Rubin Observatory Observing Variable Stars
  • The Unknown Universe
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  • Illustration of Rubin Observatory detecting supernovae in the night sky. The observatory is a boot-shaped building at bottom-right, with long white service building and tall angular dome. A cottony band extends from lower left to upper right, representing the denser stars of our home galaxy's core region. Scattered in the sky are larger white points representing the exploding supernovae, and Rubin's square-shaped view captures a small portion of sky (and some supernovae) above the observatory).
    Artist’s Illustration of Rubin Observatory Capturing Supernovae
  • Conceptual illustration of a multi-messenger astrophysical event. In the top left, two neutron stars are colliding in a bright blue burst of energy. The collision emits several different types of signals, which are being detected by different telescopes and facilities illustrated on Earth in the lower right. Gravitational waves are represented by bright and dark bands spiraling outward from the colliding neutron stars. Subatomic particles called neutrinos radiate from the collision as dashed lines, and light radiates as squiggly lines. A meandering, looping solid line that comes from somewhere else beyond the collision represents a cosmic ray, which expands into a fan-shaped spray at the Earth’s atmosphere.
    Artist’s Illustration of Multi-Messenger Event
  • An illustration of the path that light from distant galaxies might take through the cosmic web. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. Three bright teal squiggly lines spider out toward the right from three small illustrated galaxies slightly left of center, representing a squiggly path that light might take. The squiggly lines end at a pair of illustrated galaxies, one teal and one white. The teal version shows the true shape and position of the galaxy as it would have been seen without weak gravitational lensing effects. The white version represents the galaxy’s observed shape and position, slightly elongated and offset compared to the teal.
    The effects of the Universe's large-scale structure on the light from distant galaxies
  • An illustration of galaxies scattered across the cosmic web. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. There are about 15 galaxies scattered around the image. Each galaxy is actually a pair of illustrations offset from each other, showing two different shapes and positions for the same galaxy. The teal version of the galaxy is generally a circular or oval shape, representing its true shape and position before its light has traveled through the Universe. The white version of the galaxy is offset slightly in a direction and elongated or distorted compared to the teal.
    The effects of weak gravitational lensing by the Universe's large-scale structure
  • An illustrated video demonstrating the weak gravitational lensing effects of the Universe's large scale structure that distort the observed shapes and positions of distant galaxies. The video begins with a single white illustrated galaxy in the center as an elongated oval shape, representing the observation of a distant galaxy. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. The camera perspective rotates to the left, conveying a sense of 3D. The web-like background fades, and another smaller illustrated galaxy shape appears to the left, representing the origin of the distant galaxy's light. This distant galaxy wobbles and wiggles toward the final observed galaxy on the right, representing how light from that galaxy traveled through space and ending at that single white galaxy from the beginning of the video. The camera rotates back to the original perspective, and a circular teal version of the observed galaxy appears offset from the oval white version, representing the true shape and position of the galaxy if its light had not been bent by weak gravitational lensing. Finally, a dozen additional white and teal galaxy pairs appear all around the image. The white version of each galaxy is offset slightly and elongated or distorted compared to the teal version.
    The effects of weak gravitational lensing by the Universe's large-scale structure on the observed shapes and positions of galaxies.
  • An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points with the Sun at the center. The background is black with hints of dark blue in the corners and small white pinprick stars sprinkled throughout. A small illustrated Earth sits to the left of the Sun, and a semi-opaque, cone-like teal triangle extends from Earth toward the right. The cone opens up to a mosaic of a couple dozen small, square-like shapes representing Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera’s detector area. The mosaic is overlaid onto a portion of the asteroid belt, and each tile represents a camera image that detects a group of asteroids. A thin curved white line begins behind the Sun and swings out around the Earth, tracing the path of a small, not-to-scale spacecraft heading toward the illuminated asteroids, ready for exploration.
    Rubin Observatory will discover millions of new asteroids to consider for up-close exploration
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