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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science will support Rubin Observatory in its operations phase to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. They will also provide support for scientific research with the data. During operations, NSF funding is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with NSF, and DOE funding is managed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), under contract by DOE. Rubin Observatory is operated by NSF NOIRLab and SLAC.

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  • Tarjeta de fiestas 2025 del Observatorio Rubin
  • Rubin 2025 Holiday Card
  • Rubin Observatory on a sunny summer day with bright yellow wildflowers blooming in the foreground and the white observatory building set against a pale blue sky
    December Bloom 2025
  • Rubin Observatory at twilight in December, with bright yellow wildflowers blooming in the foreground
    December Bloom 2025
  • Bright yellow wildflowers bloom in the foreground with purple-tinged mountain peaks receding into the distance
    December Bloom 2025
  • Bright yellow wildflowers bloom in the foreground with Rubin Observatory framed behind them against a pale blue sky
    December Bloom 2025
  • Bright yellow wildflowers bloom in the foreground with Rubin Observatory framed behind them against a pale blue sky
    December Bloom 2025
  • Bright red wildflowers bloom in the foreground with Rubin Observatory framed behind them against a pale blue sky and a setting sun
    December Bloom 2025
  • 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
  • Large silver observatory dome under a purple-hued clear night sky filled with stars. The dense band of the Milky Way cuts diagonally across the sky from upper left toward lower right.
    A purple sky above Cerro Pachón
  • A giant collage of selfies shaped in the roughly-plus-shape of LSST Camera's focal plane
    3200-megapixel Group Photo
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