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  • A group of four people in orange construction safety clothing and hard hats stand inside Rubin Observatory's dome area against a background of teal steel beams.
    Rubin Observatory Summit Site
  • A white observatory building with a shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a dark late-twilight sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image and is a uniform dark blue, with a hint of orange on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, darkened so that details are hard to pick out. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
    Rubin Observatory at Twilight
  • A white observatory building with a shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a late-twilight sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image and is a vibrant dark blue, transitioning to yellow on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky. Wispy clouds run in horizontal streaks across the sky from the left, the direction of the ocean. The clouds closest to the left horizon are lit from below by the recently set sun, so that the bottoms are a vibrant orange while the tops are an unlit gray. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, darkened such that details are hard to pick out.
    Rubin at Twilight
  • A white observatory building with a shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a dark late-twilight sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image, and transitions from dark blue in the upper right to yellow on the left horizon. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, darkened such that details are hard to pick out.
    Rubin at Twilight
  • A white observatory building with a shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a pink and purple dawn sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image, with pink fading into purple from right to left. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, darkened so that details are hard to pick out. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
    Rubin at Twilight
  • Rubin Observatory on the left and its neighboring Auxiliary Telescope to the right sit under a crisp blue sky in a brown desert landscape dotted with remnant snow. A dirt road extends from the foreground toward the small dome of the Auxiliary Telescope atop a small hill.
    Winter 2023
  • Rubin Observatory Dome
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Wide view of the Rubin Observatory facility and smaller surrounding buildings against an orange and purple twilight sky
    Rubin Observatory at twilight
  • A video demonstrating the movement of black, fan-shaped mirror covers that expand and retract
    Mirror cover test
  • The white, domed enclosure of the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope
    Summit May 2022
  • Brightly lit monitors fill a room seen through a glass wall
    Summit May 2022
  • View of Rubin Observatory with a yellow crane next to it
    Summit May 2022
  • The observatory site showing the main and auxiliary telescope domes, silhouetted against a twilight sky containing the Moon.
    Moon over Rubin ObservatoryRubin at twilight
  • large metal cases housing capacitors line the track rails along the base of the telescope mount
    Capacitor bank
  • A view of large space containing various equipment related to the observatory.
    Maintenance Hall
  • The dome appears silver, a contrast to the white of the rest of the observatory's structures.
    Rubin Observatory Dome
  • The Rubin Observatory telescope, a large, cylindrical teal and gray metal structure, is surrounded by tools and equipment.
    Rubin Observatory telescope under construction
  • Artist's illustration of Rubin Observatory with its dome open beneath a night sky artistically filled with galaxies. The galaxies in the sky are various shapes and sizes, and all have red or orange hues. The horizon has a white glow, as if from light pollution. The observatory sits on the right, and a dirt road zigs from a lower level and zags to an upper level. The giant main mirror inside the open dome points to our right.
    Rubin at Night (closeup)
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