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  • Rubin's 8.4-meter mirror glass on its teal support cell on the observatory maintenance area, partially underneath the coating chamber. The glass is a thick disk of white glass and a protective blue top surface sitting on top of the square-shaped support cell. The metal coating chamber is as big as the glass and support cell combined.
    Inside Rubin Observatory April 2024
  • The brown Chilean desert mountain ridges recede into the background like crinkled paper under a mostly clear blue sky. A couple of nearby telescope domes peek over a nearby ridge to the right.
    View from Rubin Observatory
  • Rubin Observatory on top of its desert site on Cerro Pachón. The building is boot-shaped, with a long white service building extending to the left and angular silver dome rising on the right. Clouds fill the sky like a blanket of cotton balls with occasional patches of blue.
    Rubin Observatory in April 2024
  • Rubin Observatory on top of its desert site on Cerro Pachón. The building is boot-shaped, with a long white service building extending to the left and angular silver dome rising on the right. Clouds fill the sky like a blanket of cotton balls.
    Rubin Observatory in April 2024
  • Nora Shipp discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to the study of stellar streams
  • The yellow disc of the full moon dominates the image. The moon has nearly risen above the horizon runninb along the bottom of the image, but is just cut off from being a perfect circle at the bottom. Rubin Observatory is silhouetted toward the right side of the moon, shaped like a boot with low service building extending to the right and shiny angular dome sticking up. A small-looking crane sits to the left of the observatory.
    Rubin Observatory and the full moon
  • Nora Shipp discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to the study of stellar streams
  • Group of people working in the Rubin Observatory control room. The back wall is clear glass. A long desk in the middle of the room has several computer monitors side by side.
    Rubin Observing Team
  • Two people converse in the Rubin Observatory control room. The back wall is filled with large TV screens with multiple windows of technical information. The two people face each other at a desk with more monitors.
    Rubin Observing Team
  • 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 group of four people examine a computer monitor in the Rubin Observatory control room. Three of the people are standing, and one is sitting behind the monitor. The back wall is clear glass with a view into the open office area beyond.
    Rubin Observing Team
  • Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background. Rubin is a boot-like shape at center, with a long white service building extending away from us and to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left. The dome shutter is open, and appears as a dark vertical opening with teal support beams visible.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background. Rubin's long white service building is hidden from view, so the observatory appears as a silver cap on top of a white cylinder. The dome shutter is open, and the silver upper support ring of the telescope ring is partially visible.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background. Rubin is a boot-like shape at center, with a long white service building extending to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left. A couple of neighboring telescope domes are visible on a ridge in the distance.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Two people in yellow construction vests and hard hats smile in front of the Rubin telescope mount. The mount towers behind the people and is rotated on its side. It has a yellow cross-shaped stand-in steel mass installed on the bottom, which faces the camera because of the mount's positioning.
    EPO Team in Chile
  • A person wearing a yellow construction vest and hard hat smiles to the side while holding a professional digital camera.
    Alan Strauss in Chile
  • A circular glass disk coated in blue film sits in the middle of a large maintenance area
    Rubin Primary Mirror
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A group of seven women sit at a long table for lunch in Rubin's cafeteria area.
    International Women's Day
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
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