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    • The LSST "first stone," i.e. a large boulder with a plaque from the initial site blast at the start of Rubin Observatory construction
      Rubin Observatory First Stone
    • Rubin Observatory on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background beneath a blue sky. Rubin is a boot-like shape on the left, with a long white service building extending toward us and to the left and angular silver dome rising on the right. The smaller dome of the 1.2-meter Auxiliary Telescope is visible to the right on a lower flattened area, with a dirt road snaking to it from the main observatory.
      Drone view of Rubin Observatory
    • Rubin Observatory on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background beneath a blue sky. Rubin is a boot-like shape in the center, with a long white service building extending to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left.
      Rubin Observatory
    • A small telescope dome sits atop a flat area on a desert mountain summit, with a yellow crane with arm lowered to the right. A red and white communications tower blocks part of the telescope building, and an even smaller dome that hosts Rubin's all-sky camera sits on its own white steel tower to the left. Towering desert peaks rise in the background beneath a mostly cloudy sky.
      Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • View looking into the Rubin Observatory control room. The back wall is filled with large TV screens with multiple windows of technical information. A lone chair with a black jacket draped over the back sits at a curved desk with yet more computer monitors
      Rubin Observatory Control Room
    • Two women in orange construction safety vests and white hard hats converse in front of a railing separating them from a yellow crane structure in the background
      Sitio de la cumbre del Observatorio Rubin
    • Two people equipped with high elevation safety harnesses ready to work on the observatory dome. The people are facing the teal steel wall and away from us, and are wearing orange safety vests and white hard hats.
      Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • A group of people stand in the telescope's dome area, which is a construction site. Everyone is wearing orange vest and hard hats, busy with their respective tasks.
      Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • Looking down from the top of the telescope mount, into the center and at the primary mirror stand-in mass made of steel. Various metal beams and bars criss-cross the view.
      Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • A person in a red and black jacket with orange hard hat looks at something out of view to the right. A large piece of unidentifiable white machinery is in the background, with a blue circle and white text reading "26 Mts" printed on it.
      Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • A group of four people in orange construction safety clothing and hard hats stand inside Rubin Observatory's dome area against a background of teal steel beams.
      Rubin Observatory Summit Site
    • Rubin Observatory under a starry night sky. The observatory sits on top of its rocky summit site in the foreground, and is made of a long white building that extends to the left and a silver angular dome sticking up. The Milky Way is visible, spanning the image horizontally above the observatory as a dense stream of stars interspersed with dark and wispy dust clouds. The yellow glow of city lights in La Serena are seen in the distance to the lower left.
      Rubin Observatory Under the Milky Way
    • A smattering of hundreds of galaxies of different shapes and sizes against a black background, Semi-opaque teal blobs surround and connect many of the galaxies, tracing the distribution of the countless wandering stars that make up the intracluster light. The ghostly teal glow is primarily concentrated in an irregular shape around the galaxies in the center of the image, but some larger individual galaxies off to the sides have their own separate glows.
      Enhanced image of Intracluster light in the Abell 85 galaxy cluster
    • A drone video flying counterclockwise around Rubin Observatory at sunset. The drone remains stationary until 15 seconds in, looking at Rubin's shining silver done and white service pointed away from us. Then the drone begins its slow counterclockwise journey, ending on the other side of the observatory from where it started. The skies are clear blue, and the desert mountain landscape has a golden hue from sunset, with the observatory and surrounding structures casting long shadows. The neighboring Gemini Observatory starts out visible to Rubin's left, moving to the right and out of view as the drone flies around Rubin.
      Sunset fly-around
    • Rubin Observatory in a golden sunset, with silver dome glinting in the setting sun's light. We see the observatory's long white service building and vertical silver dome such that the white service building appears pointed slightly to our left. To the left, the brilliantly setting sun glows bright orange, illuminating the landscape in a golden glow. The Chilean desert mountain ridges become more and more opaque as they recede into the distance, creating a layered look.
      Rubin at sunset
    • 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
    • An illustration of the path that light from distant galaxies might take through the cosmic web. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. Three bright teal squiggly lines spider out toward the right from three small illustrated galaxies slightly left of center, representing a squiggly path that light might take. The squiggly lines end at a pair of illustrated galaxies, one teal and one white. The teal version shows the true shape and position of the galaxy as it would have been seen without weak gravitational lensing effects. The white version represents the galaxy’s observed shape and position, slightly elongated and offset compared to the teal.
      The effects of the Universe's large-scale structure on the light from distant galaxies
    • An illustration of galaxies scattered across the cosmic web. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. There are about 15 galaxies scattered around the image. Each galaxy is actually a pair of illustrations offset from each other, showing two different shapes and positions for the same galaxy. The teal version of the galaxy is generally a circular or oval shape, representing its true shape and position before its light has traveled through the Universe. The white version of the galaxy is offset slightly in a direction and elongated or distorted compared to the teal.
      The effects of weak gravitational lensing by the Universe's large-scale structure
    • An illustrated video demonstrating the weak gravitational lensing effects of the Universe's large scale structure that distort the observed shapes and positions of distant galaxies. The video begins with a single white illustrated galaxy in the center as an elongated oval shape, representing the observation of a distant galaxy. The background is a dark blue with criss-crossing light blue filaments made of tiny dots, resembling wisps of smoke or strings of a cobweb. The camera perspective rotates to the left, conveying a sense of 3D. The web-like background fades, and another smaller illustrated galaxy shape appears to the left, representing the origin of the distant galaxy's light. This distant galaxy wobbles and wiggles toward the final observed galaxy on the right, representing how light from that galaxy traveled through space and ending at that single white galaxy from the beginning of the video. The camera rotates back to the original perspective, and a circular teal version of the observed galaxy appears offset from the oval white version, representing the true shape and position of the galaxy if its light had not been bent by weak gravitational lensing. Finally, a dozen additional white and teal galaxy pairs appear all around the image. The white version of each galaxy is offset slightly and elongated or distorted compared to the teal version.
      The effects of weak gravitational lensing by the Universe's large-scale structure on the observed shapes and positions of galaxies.
    • 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 blue twilight sky. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image, and is a fairly uniform blue color with a hint of pink 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. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
      Rubin Observatory beneath Venus
    • Rubin's commissioning camera sitting on a yellow flatbed transport cart in a large open room on the maintenance floor of the observatory. The camera itself is a long cylindrical structure laying horizontally on the cart. The left third is teal and generally larger in diameter than the right two-thirds, which is black and mostly hollow.
      ComCam on Cart
    • A view looking up from below the white donut-shaped structure of Rubin's secondary mirror stand-in "surrogate" mass, which is suspended from a crane hook near the dome ceiling. A large black circular steel structure beneath the white donut structure extends out of view to both sides. The many teal steel beams supporting the observatory dome criss-cross in the background.
      Secondary Mirror Surrogate Removal
    • The white donut-shaped structure of Rubin's secondary mirror stand-in "surrogate" mass hangs suspended from a hook against the myriad of teal steel beams supporting the observatory dome. The main telescope structure is tilted on its side, such that the teal steel ring that's normally horizontal at the top cuts vertically through the left of the image. A person in a hard hat and orange safety vest supervises the activities from a raised crane basket on the right.
      Secondary Mirror Surrogate Removal
    • Timelapse video of several Rubin Observatory summit team members in orange safety vest and hard hats removing the commissioning camera from the telescope. The meters-long camera is mounted at the top of the huge telescope structure, so to remove it, the whole system is tilted 90 degrees to the side. A large crane attaches to and supports the long, black, cylindrical camera as it's removed from the steel supports and placed on the floor.
      ComCam Removal
    • A couple hundred people wearing bright green shirts look up to the camera on a balcony above them as a group for a photo. In a row on the bottom are 11 photos of virtual participants in Rubin's 2023 workshop
      Rubin 2023 Group Photo
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