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  • Rubin Observatory beneath a glowing night sky showing the band of the Milky Way, Venus, and a comet. The observatory is a boot-shaped structure at center, with long white service building and vertical silver dome. The Milky Way stretches horizontally overhead as a cotton-candy-like band of stars and dust. Venus shines brightly as a point to the left, and the thin, faint streak of a comet appears above the observatory
    A Cosmic Show
  • Rubin Observatory under a night sky filled with star trails. The night sky is striking, with white streaks of trailed star light rotating around a point out of view to the upper left, against background hues of blue, purple, and yellow. The boot shaped observatory sits in the lower right on its rocky summit site, with long white service building pointed left and angular silver dome pointed up.
    Rubin Observatory beneath star trails
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  • Rubin Observatory under a night sky. The observatory is a boot shape sitting on top of its rocky summit site, made of a long white building that extends to the left and a silver angular dome sticking up. A silhouetted crane is parked to the right. A couple of faint satellite streaks can be seen to the left of the observatory.
    Rubin Observatory Evening
  • A telescope dome and steel towers sit on a rocky mountain site. The sky fills the top half of the image, and is a {{describe sky}}. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image.
    Rubin's Auxiliary Telescope
  • Rubin Observatory under a night sky. The observatory is a boot shape sitting on top of its rocky summit site, made of a long white building that extends to the left and a silver angular dome sticking up. A silhouetted crane is parked to the right, and a few passenger vehicles are parked in the flat area in front of the observatory.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • The night sky from Cerro Pachón. A band of denser stars making up the Milky Way stretches vertically up through the center of the image. Tiny pinpricks of star light fill the rest of the image against a blue-black sky. The horizon is a thin strip along the very bottom of the image, with the undulating desert mountain peaks visible. Light from nearby La Serena is visible above the horizon as yellow and and green hue.
    Cerro Pachón Night Sky
  • A purple-hued and star-filled night sky shines through a rectangular observatory dome opening. The teal steel frame of the dome shows on the sides as we look up through it, and a yellow steel support structure dominates the lower half of the photo
    Night Sky Through Dome
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the auxiliary telescope on a hill to the right and construction storage units in the foreground. A bright moon is visible over the observatory, filtered through clouds
    Rubin Observatory November 2022
  • The luminous Milky Way and hundreds of stars stretch across the sky behind the silhouette of Rubin Observatory.
    Milky Way above Rubin Observatory
  • The Milky Way's brightness rivals lights emanating from the observatory buildings and horizon skyglow.
    Rubin Under the Milky Way
  • Circular, colorful streaks fill the night sky over a partially constructed Rubin Observatory.
    Time lapse stars over Rubin Observatory
  • Skyglow from lights punctuate the horizon in 3 places, along with a silhouette of the unfinished observatory building, a crane, and the Auxtel on its separate hill.
    Rubin Observatory under the Milky Way
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