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  • 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
  • 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 hauling trucks pull a trailer that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror inside its white hexagonal box.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two hauling trucks pull a trailer that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror inside its white hexagonal box. They are about to begin up a small hill in the foreground.
    Mirror Glass Move
  • A large hauling trucks pulls 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. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rubin's stand-in surrogate steel mirror sits outside in an area flat area. The surrogate is the same size and weight as the real 8.4-meter mirror and was used for testing. A few people walk around the flat area around the surrogate mirror.
    Mirror Surrogate
  • The white hexagonal box that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror sits on top of a flat bed trailer and is about to be hauled out of its large storage shed by a hauling truck. A person in a yellow construction vest and hard hat supervises at the left.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A large hauling trucks pulls 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. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rubin Observatory on top of its summit site on Cerro Pachón against a sunset scene. The observatory building is an angular silver dome on top of a long building extending to the left. The observatory and the hill it sits on are silhouetted against a yellow blue sky, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of orange fading into the background.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Three people working in protective construction gear on top of Rubin's Observatory's dome smile for the camera. The top of the dome has a walkaway extending away from the camera guarded by teal guardrails. The Chilean desert mountains are visible in the distance.
    Rubin team on the Summit
  • View from on top of Rubin Observatory's dome toward the neighboring telescopes on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean desert mountains. A smooth road area connects Rubin with nearby buildings to the bottom right. Rubin's auxiliary telescope is a small dome at the center of the image, and two additional telescopes are visible above and to the left on a nearby ridge.
    View from Rubin Observatory
  • View from the near the top of Rubin's dome looking down toward the telescope mount inside. The mount is rotated on its side toward the left, and from this angle appears as a three vertical teal steel beams connected with two additional beams arranged in a V-shape with the point to the right. A catwalk obstructs part of the view on the left.
    Rubin Telescope Mount
  • View from the near the top of Rubin's dome looking down toward the telescope mount inside. The mount is rotated on its side toward the left, and from this angle appears as a three parallel sets of steel beams connected with two additional beams arranged in a V-shape with the point to the lower right.
    Inside Rubin Dome
  • A person sits in front of Rubin's giant telescope mount. The mount is tipped on its side away from the side, revealing the yellow X-shaped stand-in mass for the mirror and its support cell. The person appears tiny next to the mount, only about 1/8th of its height.
    Break Time
  • An artist’s impression of streams of stars around a galaxy. The galaxy occupies most of the image as a fuzzy blue-white oval with spiral features extending out clockwise. The light clouds are interspersed with small dark brown splotches in the same spiral pattern around the center, representing dust clouds. The galaxy’s center is a bright yellow glow. Overlaid on top of and surrounding the galaxy are several criss-crossing, faint tendrils of stars that represent satellite dwarf galaxies and star clusters that have been stretched out into long thin lines. The tendrils have various lengths and widths, though all are arcs rather than complete circles. The background is black.
    Artist’s Impression: Stellar streams in and around the Milky Way
  • A large rectangular sheet holding a camera filter is suspended above the car-sized LSST Camera, viewed from the back.
    Camera Team at SLAC
  • Three people in white protective gear, masks, and hard hats look up toward something out of view to the left.
    Camera Team at SLAC
  • A large rectangular sheet holding a camera filter is suspended above the car-sized LSST Camera, viewed from the back.
    Camera Team at SLAC
  • Rays of the setting sun appear to emanate from Rubin Observatory atop its desert mountain summit. The clear sky takes up 75% of the image, and light rays from the setting sun radiate from the center horizon like spokes on a wheel. The boot-shaped observatory, with long white service building pointing left and angular silver dome sticking up, sits atop a shadowed summit on the right. Lower altitude mountain ridges recede into the distance.
    Sunset at Cerro Pachón in February 2024
  • Prep Work on Primary Mirror
  • Surrogate Mirror Wash
  • Siegfried Eggl discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to space mission planning
  • Siegfried Eggl discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to space mission planning
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory staff remove the M1M3 cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
  • Rubin Observatory summit staff remove the M1M3 mirror cell and surrogate mass from the telescope mount
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