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  • 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
  • Four mules stand among dry desert shrubs and sandy landscape, with a rocky hill looming in the background. The closest mule in the center is mostly gray with a white face, and is standing sideways looking at the camera. Behind the first mule, a brown mule also stands sideways looking at the camera. To the left, a mostly brown mule with black shoulder stands sideways. Yet again to the left, a brown and white mule faces away from the camera. The sky in the upper right is mostly cloudy, with uniform felt-like clouds.
    Rubin Mules
  • 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
  • Three people stand in front of a metal railing at sunset, with an observatory building silhouetted in the background. The person on the left has long brown hair and is wearing an orange construction vest and blue jeans. The middle person has short silver hair and is wearing a bright orange long sleeve shirt and gray pants. The person on the right has long dark hair in a braid, and is wearing a blue fleece jacket and dark pants. Next to the building in the background is a tall crane. The sunset skies fade from pink in the upper right to yellow in the lower left.
    Group Pic on the Summit
  • A group of four people gather at a curved desk full of computer monitors inside a large, bright room. Three of the people are sitting at the large curved desk, which has a total of five monitors. The fourth person stands behind the three who are seated. The wall behind the people is completely glass. The glass is filled with sketches, equations, and graphs drawn with dry erase marker.
    Start of Night Observing
  • A green bush with purple flowers dominates the image in the foreground, with a white observatory building visible in the background. The bush is a desert shrub with a round appearance, and has lots of long thin green leaves. Hundreds of purple flowers with tiny yellow centers are sprinkled among the green leaves. The observatory building in the background sits on a light brown, rocky, desert site. The building has a long white main section and silver shiny dome on top, and the overall dimensions resemble a foot and an ankle.
    Flowers in Bloom
  • A large observatory building on a rocky hill on the left opposes a smaller observatory dome on a separate hill on the right. The top half of the image shows clear blue skies. The large building on the left is white with a silver dome sticking up, and the dome's shutters face right. Two crane arms with baskets lift two sets of workers up to the left side of the dome, while a third crane sits to the right of the large building. A gravel road cuts through the image beneath the small observatory's hill on the right, up to the large building on the left.
    Wide View of Rubin
  • This video from an overhead drone circles clockwise around a white observatory building with shiny silver dome, showing that the dome looks nearly complete. Around 45 seconds in, the fly-around restarts and now shows two people standing on top of the dome who look tiny compared to the entire dome and building.
    Dome Fly-around of Rubin Observatory, January 2023
  • the yellow orb of the moon glows just above the horizon to the left of a white observatory building on a rocky landscape with a silver dome shining in the moonlight. The horizon cuts through the center of the image, and sparse clouds add interest to the early morning blue-tinted sky
    Photobombed by the Moon
  • This video shows the telescope mount assembly rotating on the x and y axis simultaneously.
    TMA Moves December 2022
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the auxiliary telescope on a hill to the right and construction storage units in the foreground
    Rubin Observatory November 2022
  • 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
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the telescope mount visible through the open dome
    Rubin Observatory November 2022
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the telescope mount visible through the open dome
    Rubin Observatory December 2022
  • A white observatory building with shiny silver dome under a deep blue night sky sprinkled with stars. The observatory has the approximate dimensions of a foot with an ankle, with the white, main building extending toward the left and the silver dome standing up on the right. Directly above the dome is one particularly bright star that stands out in the night sky.
    Rubin Under the Stars
  • A view of Rubin Observatory with the sun setting behind it and layers of orange sky at the horizon
    Rubin Observatory December 2022
  • Close view of Rubin Observatory with the dome open and the telescope mount peeking through the opening
    Rubin Observatory December 2022
  • This timelapse video shows the construction of Rubin Observatory from 2011-2022
    Rubin construction timelapse
  • The sliver of a crescent moon hangs above a dark horizon next to a silhouetted Rubin Observatory amid a firey orange sky
    A crescent moon at sunset
  • A view looking into the LSST Camera's huge opening. The camera opening is a large black donut shape, with reflections of ceiling light revealing the presence of glass lenses. In the center of the opening is the camera's focal plane detector, which is made of 189 square CCD chips arranged in a roughly square shape. The camera is suspended on a white metal frame with white handrails. The completely white room gives the image an overall sterile feel.
    Face to Face with the LSST Camera
  • A group of six people stand in front of the huge LSST digital camera, which is oriented so that we're looking into the lens opening and at the blue-tinted tiled focal plane of CCDs. The group of people are all outfitted head to toe in white clean room garb, with hair caps, face masks, white onesies, and foot covers.
    Lens cap off
  • Illustration that describes how the spaces are distributed within the observatory building.
    Observatory facility
  • Illustration that describes how the spaces are distributed within the observatory building.
    Observatory facility
  • Map showing data centers in the world.
    Rubin Observatory data centers and map
  • Drone view of a large group of people in matching teal shirts standing on a green lawn
    Group Photo from Rubin 2022
  • Teachers pose in a group picture
    Teachers' workshop
  • Teachers work on laptops with one of Rubin's investigation
    Teachers workshop in 2022
  • Snow blankets the mountaintop under a partly cloudy daytime sky. Roads are cleared and no snow appears on the observatory buildings.
    Cerro Pachón after a winter storm
  • The telescope mount is positioned horizontally and pointing away from the open slit of the dome.
    Telescope Mount
  • A large crane holds a person in a suspended bucket in front of the Rubin telescope mount
    Cable install
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