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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
  • Rubin Observatory in a sunset glow
  • Calibration Screen Installation
  • A - Rubin First Look3 ES.jpeg
  • The car-sized, black and teal commissioning camera sits on a yellow transport cart on Rubin Observatory's heavy lift elevator platform. The concrete walls of the elevator shaft surround the platform and extend up out of view.
    Rubin Commissioning Camera reinstalled, August 2024
  • Rubin Observatory on a snowy mountaintop under a patchy blue sky with wispy clouds. The observatory is boot-shaped, with long white service building extending left and angular silver dome sticking up on the right. A small shed is visible to the left and in front of the observatory. A brown dirt road curves around the right side of the shed toward the observatory.
    Snow Day at Rubin Observatory, August 2024
  • View looking up the last stretch of a snow-covered road and landscape toward Rubin Observatory. Rubin is a boot-shaped building on the left, with long white service building extending left and angular silver dome sticking up. A smaller silver dome peeks up over a higher ridge on the right.
    Snow Day at Rubin Observatory, August 2024
  • View up toward the Cerro Pachón mountain ridge with a plowed dirt road in the foreground. The distant mountain ridge spans most of the image in the distance, undulating with slight elevation variation. The ridge line is broken by three telescope domes sticking up like nubs - two toward the left and one on the right. The sky is white with wispy clouds.
    Snow Day at Rubin Observatory, August 2024
  • Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter mirror is coated
  • Rubin Observatory's 8.4-meter mirror is coated
  • 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
  • A 60-second video showing the Rubin Observatory telescope moving during balance testing to ensure the telescope is properly balanced for other future tests. The first 25 seconds shows the large teal mount structure from above, moving from a tilt of 45 degrees to vertical, then down to horizontal and back to vertical. From 25 to 35 seconds, we see the large teal mount structure from floor level, tilting from vertical down to horizontal. From 35 seconds to the end, we see the large teal mount structure from above again. It's pointed vertical and spins like a top counterclockwise, then pauses, then spins clockwise, then pauses, and finally spins counterclockwise again.
    TMA Balance and Dynamic Testing
  • 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 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, a tall crane, and the foreground hill they sit on are silhouetted against a yellow and orange sky, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of purple and blue fading into the background. The sun isn't quite set yet, peeking half above the horizon directly to the right of the observatory.
    Rubin Observatory at Sunset
  • A white observatory building with 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 fades from dark blue on the right to purple on the left, with a hint of yellow on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky, with a single large point, the planet Venus, to the upper left of the observatory. 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 and Venus at sunset
  • A white observatory building with shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a darkening, late-twilight sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image, and fades from dark blue on the right toward purple on the left, with a hint of yellow on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky, with a single large point, the planet Venus, directly over the observatory. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, and is dark enough that some details are hard to pick out. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
    Rubin Observatory
  • Rubin Observatory under a blue and pink sunset sky. Venus appears as a bright point directly overhead. The bottom third of the image is a rocky landscape. The observatory building sits atop the landscape and has a white base and silver angular dome. To the right is a white crane. Just above the landscape and behind the observatory building are some gray clouds near the horizon.
    Rubin Observatory and Venus at sunset
  • A white observatory building with 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, with a single large point, the planet Venus, just to left above the observatory. 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 and Venus at sunset
  • A white observatory building with shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a pink sunset sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image and fades from dark blue, to pink, and finally to yellow on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky, with a single large point, the planet Venus, directly above the observatory. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, orange-hued but 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 and Venus at sunset
  • A white observatory building with shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a late sunset sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image, and fades from dark blue on the right to purple on the left, with yellow along the horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky, with a single large point, the planet Venus, directly above the observatory. 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 and Venus at sunset
  • A white observatory building with shiny silver dome sits on a rocky site under a pink sunset sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image and fades from blue in the top right to a vivid orange on the left horizon. Tiny pinpricks of stars are scattered in the sky, and wispy clouds fan from the left horizon. A single large point, the planet Venus, shines brightly through the clouds to the upper left of the observatory. The brown, rocky desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
    Rubin Observatory and Venus at sunset
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wide view of the Rubin Observatory facility and smaller surrounding buildings against an orange and purple twilight sky
    Rubin Observatory at twilight
  • 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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