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  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory celebrates the official start of its Operations phase
  • Rubin Observatory data centers indicated on a world map
    Map of Rubin Observatory data centers
  • Rubin Data Flow (Spanish)
  • Rubin Data Flow
  • Shuang Liang in the Rubin control room at SLAC
  • A sprawling, textured field of galaxies is scattered across the deep black of space in the shape of Rubin Observatory's camera detector plane — a square shape with stair-step corners. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. Seven full Moons span the width across the center, showing the size scale of the image.
    Seven full moons wide
  • Rubin Observatory and the Galaxies
  • A boot-shaped observatory against a sunset sky. The sky is lighter and blue on the right, transitioning to dark with twinkling stars on the left.
    Two hours of sunset, captured in a single image
  • Rubin Community Workshop 2025 group photo.
  • Rubin Workshop 2025
  • Rubin Community Workshop 2025
  • A giant collage of selfies shaped in the roughly-plus-shape of LSST Camera's focal plane
    3200-megapixel Group Photo
  • Rubin’s calibration screen
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: The video starts zoomed in on the Trifid nebula, resembling a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. We zoom out to the full view of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, with the Lagoon nebula stretching wide to the lower left, like a churning sea of magenta gas with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:14: Zoomed out to the full view, a size scale appears along the left and bottom of the image, showing the full Moon as ~1/6th of the vertical height and ~1/9th of the horizontal height. 0:17: We zoom into an area below and left of center, in the upper left portion of the Lagoon Nebula. The wispy pink clouds of gas are peppered with the tight blue and yellow points of hundreds of stars. 0:28: We zoom out to the lower right lobe of the Lagoon Nebula, a sweeping cotton-candy cloud of magenta gas shaped with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:36: We zoom in again above the lower portion of Lagoon and to the right of the upper portion. What appears as a tan background cloud in the full view is revealed to be millions of densely packed individual stars. A dark, swan-shaped cloud of dust cuts over the sparkling stellar backdrop. 0:45: We zoom out again to the full view, showing a cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes, with the comparatively small Trifid Nebula at upper right, and the sweeping Lagoon Nebula below and to the left.
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas (Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Teaser Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Teaser Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: The video starts zoomed in on the Trifid nebula, resembling a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. We zoom out to the full view of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, with the Lagoon nebula stretching wide to the lower left, like a churning sea of magenta gas with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:14: Zoomed out to the full view, a size scale appears along the left and bottom of the image, showing the full Moon as ~1/6th of the vertical height and ~1/9th of the horizontal height. 0:17: We zoom into an area below and left of center, in the upper left portion of the Lagoon Nebula. The wispy pink clouds of gas are peppered with the tight blue and yellow points of hundreds of stars. 0:28: We zoom out to the lower right lobe of the Lagoon Nebula, a sweeping cotton-candy cloud of magenta gas shaped with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. 0:36: We zoom in again above the lower portion of Lagoon and to the right of the upper portion. What appears as a tan background cloud in the full view is revealed to be millions of densely packed individual stars. A dark, swan-shaped cloud of dust cuts over the sparkling stellar backdrop. 0:45: We zoom out again to the full view, showing a cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes, with the comparatively small Trifid Nebula at upper right, and the sweeping Lagoon Nebula below and to the left.
    Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae (Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies. 0:11: The view zooms out to the full scene, showing an area over 60 times the size of the full Moon filled with a few massive galaxies, dozens of large galaxies, and millions of small galaxies and stars. Our initial view now appears tiny at the right side of the full scene. 0:18: We zoom in to the left third of the scene, showing a massive elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth like a polished, glowing stone. Dozens of smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes surround it. 0:26: We pan up to a region filled with the hundreds of golden sparkling gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, up and right from center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. 0:34: The view zooms back out, and rotates clockwise to the right by about 45 degrees. We continue zooming out to show the full scene as a pill shape, filled with glittering galaxies oriented from upper left to lower right. It is surrounded by black that represents the sky that has yet to be captured by Rubin. 0:41: We complete our zoom out, and the blurred, boot-shaped figure of the Rubin Observatory building appears in the foreground. Its plus-shaped field of view is overlaid on the pill-shaped area of galaxies, about one-third its size. The field of view moves and flashes in a tiling pattern to the right of the pill shape, representing Rubin snapping images of new areas of sky.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start zoomed in on a blue spiral galaxy with a golden elliptical companion to the lower left. The velvet black of space is peppered with the smudges of distant galaxies of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The view progressively zooms out showing more and more large and small galaxies. 0:11: The view zooms out to the full scene, showing an area over 60 times the size of the full Moon filled with a few massive galaxies, dozens of large galaxies, and millions of small galaxies and stars. Our initial view now appears tiny at the right side of the full scene. 0:18: We zoom in to the left third of the scene, showing a massive elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth like a polished, glowing stone. Dozens of smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes surround it. 0:26: We pan up to a region filled with the hundreds of golden sparkling gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, up and right from center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. 0:34: The view zooms back out, and rotates clockwise to the right by about 45 degrees. We continue zooming out to show the full scene as a pill shape, filled with glittering galaxies oriented from upper left to lower right. It is surrounded by black that represents the sky that has yet to be captured by Rubin. 0:41: We complete our zoom out, and the blurred, boot-shaped figure of the Rubin Observatory building appears in the foreground. Its plus-shaped field of view is overlaid on the pill-shaped area of galaxies, about one-third its size. The field of view moves and flashes in a tiling pattern to the right of the pill shape, representing Rubin snapping images of new areas of sky.
    The Cosmic Treasure Chest (Video-EN)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start with a sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. We zoom in on a star toward the top. A square labeled “A variable star” calls it out, before two grayscale panels pop out the right, one after the other. The first shows the star’s initial brightness, while the second panel shows it 30% brighter half an hour later. 0:24: We zoom out and away, and then into a different region to the lower left. Another variable star is identified, and two more grayscale panels appear showing the star increasing in brightness by 11% after just 12 minutes. 0:38: We zoom out and away again, and then into a different region back to the upper right. Here, the variable star identified increases in brightness by 21% over half an hour. 0:50: As we zoom out to the full view, all of the 46 variable stars in the view are highlighted with teal circles. The circles pulse in size according to the real changes in brightness of their associated star.
    Rhythms in the Stars (Video-ES)
  • 0:00: Introductory animation 0:02: We start with a sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. We zoom in on a star toward the top. A square labeled “A variable star” calls it out, before two grayscale panels pop out the right, one after the other. The first shows the star’s initial brightness, while the second panel shows it 30% brighter half an hour later. 0:24: We zoom out and away, and then into a different region to the lower left. Another variable star is identified, and two more grayscale panels appear showing the star increasing in brightness by 11% after just 12 minutes. 0:38: We zoom out and away again, and then into a different region back to the upper right. Here, the variable star identified increases in brightness by 21% over half an hour. 0:50: As we zoom out to the full view, all of the 46 variable stars in the view are highlighted with teal circles. The circles pulse in size according to the real changes in brightness of their associated star.
    Rhythms in the Stars (Video-EN)
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