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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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  • Two observatory buildings sit atop a rocky summit under a blue sky with scattered puffy clouds. The landscape is brown and rocky, with layers of mountain peaks going into the distance. The two observatories are white structures on top of the nearest peak.
    Dome View
  • A view out of the Rubin Observatory dome opening looking at the brown, mountainous Chilean landscape. The sky is blue with a few puffy clouds in the distance. The view is from inside the lower right corner of the opening, and the opening extends beyond our view overhead.
    Dome Open
  • A view out of the Rubin Observatory dome opening looking at the brown, mountainous Chilean landscape. The view is from inside the lower right corner of the opening, angled so we can see just inside the opening as well. Three people stand near the opening, smiling at the camera. They are wearing hard hats, safety harnesses, and orange construction vests. The dome opening itself is framed by teal steel.
    Dome View
  • Three rows of yellow construction hard hats sitting on top of a gray file cabinet. The front left hard hat is the most prominent, and the rows of hard hats go into the background toward the upper right. Each hard hat is sitting on top of a folded neon orange or yellow construction safety vest.
    Safety Equipment
  • An observatory building sits atop a dark rocky summit under sunset skies. The image is divided into seven vertical slices showing seven days' worth of sunsets in a single image, from March 2 on left all the way to March 8 on the right. Each sunset varies in tones of blue, pink, purple, and orange
    A Week of Sunsets at Rubin Observatory
  • Two workers are lifted by an orange crane to work on part of a large, silver aluminum observatory dome. The dome itself takes up about two thirds of the image. The dome also has vertical ridging that adds texture. The dome shutters face toward our right, made of two flat surface that meet at an obtuse angle. The shutters themselves open by separating to the sides. The sides of the dome are broken up by long rectangular features, which are the dome flaps that swing outward to open and allow air circulation inside the dome. The brown and mountainous desert Chilean landscape is visible in the background under clear blue skies.
    Drone view of Rubin dome
  • Two workers lifted in an orange crane basket work on aluminum flaps on an observatory dome. The silver aluminum dome dominates the image, extending beyond the top and bottom. The aluminum surface is ridged, with vertical lines spanning the entire height. Two people in neon green hard hats and orange vests stand in a small orange crane basket in the center of the image. One person is working on the rectangular dome flaps. The flaps open by swinging upward and allow for air circulation inside the dome. The flaps themselves are long rectangles, almost as tall as a person, and nearly three times as long. The ground far below is visible in the lower right.
    Working on the dome
  • Black and white photo looking into the business end of a giant car-sized digital camera. A large black circular opening dominates the center, and sits on a white steel support structure
    LSST Camera in Black & White
  • Black and white photo looking into the business end of a giant car-sized digital camera. A large black cylindrical tube is seen face-on, supported off the floor by white steel beams and a horizontal platform. A person sits in a desk chair in the lower right about the same distance away as the camera. They almost appear smaller than the camera opening, showing the camera's scale.
    LSST Camera in black & white
  • Black and white photo of a person sitting next to the huge cylindrical core of Rubin's giant digital camera. The person is sitting in a rolly chair wearing a white onesie, white booties, white mask, and white head covering. To the left in our view, a cylindrical tube lays on its side pointed toward us, raised off the floor. It's made up of two differently sized cylinders laid end to end, with the larger cylinder toward the back. The end of the smaller cylinder facing us has a bunch of cables sticking out.
    Working on the LSST Camera
  • Black and white photo of a person kneeling on the floor and reflected in a circular object. The person is dressed head to toe in white clean room protective equipment, which includes a white onesie, white booties, gloves, and hair net. They are holding up a camera to photograph themselves.
    Filter Selfie
  • The video begins with background of a vivid red nebula sprinkled with stars, overlaid with the words "What word defines Women? / ¿Qué palabra define a las mujeres?" The video then cycles through many different women saying their word.
    International Women's Day 2023
  • A white observatory building sits on a rocky site under a blue twilight sky with a few stars visible. The shiny aluminum dome is opened to reveal the top half of the telescope mount ring structure peeking out. A second small dome sits on a neighboring hill. The sky fills the top half of the image, and is a fairly uniform navy blue color. The desert landscape fills the bottom half of the image, and is too dark to pick out many details. A collection of shipping containers are lined up side by side in the lower right.
    Rubin Observatory February 2023
  • A purple-hued and star-filled night sky shines through a rectangular observatory dome opening. The teal steel frame of the dome shows on the sides as we look up through it, and a yellow steel support structure dominates the lower half of the photo
    Night Sky Through Dome
  • Four mules stand among dry desert shrubs and sandy landscape, with a rocky hill looming in the background. The closest mule in the center is mostly gray with a white face, and is standing sideways looking at the camera. Behind the first mule, a brown mule also stands sideways looking at the camera. To the left, a mostly brown mule with black shoulder stands sideways. Yet again to the left, a brown and white mule faces away from the camera. The sky in the upper right is mostly cloudy, with uniform felt-like clouds.
    Rubin Mules
  • An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points with the Sun at the center. The background is black with hints of dark blue in the corners and small white pinprick stars sprinkled throughout. A small illustrated Earth sits to the left of the Sun, and a semi-opaque, cone-like teal triangle extends from Earth toward the right. The cone opens up to a mosaic of a couple dozen small, square-like shapes representing Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera’s detector area. The mosaic is overlaid onto a portion of the asteroid belt, and each tile represents a camera image that detects a group of asteroids. A thin curved white line begins behind the Sun and swings out around the Earth, tracing the path of a small, not-to-scale spacecraft heading toward the illuminated asteroids, ready for exploration.
    Rubin Observatory will discover millions of new asteroids to consider for up-close exploration
  • Three people stand in front of a metal railing at sunset, with an observatory building silhouetted in the background. The person on the left has long brown hair and is wearing an orange construction vest and blue jeans. The middle person has short silver hair and is wearing a bright orange long sleeve shirt and gray pants. The person on the right has long dark hair in a braid, and is wearing a blue fleece jacket and dark pants. Next to the building in the background is a tall crane. The sunset skies fade from pink in the upper right to yellow in the lower left.
    Group Pic on the Summit
  • A group of four people gather at a curved desk full of computer monitors inside a large, bright room. Three of the people are sitting at the large curved desk, which has a total of five monitors. The fourth person stands behind the three who are seated. The wall behind the people is completely glass. The glass is filled with sketches, equations, and graphs drawn with dry erase marker.
    Start of Night Observing
  • A green bush with purple flowers dominates the image in the foreground, with a white observatory building visible in the background. The bush is a desert shrub with a round appearance, and has lots of long thin green leaves. Hundreds of purple flowers with tiny yellow centers are sprinkled among the green leaves. The observatory building in the background sits on a light brown, rocky, desert site. The building has a long white main section and silver shiny dome on top, and the overall dimensions resemble a foot and an ankle.
    Flowers in Bloom
  • A large observatory building on a rocky hill on the left opposes a smaller observatory dome on a separate hill on the right. The top half of the image shows clear blue skies. The large building on the left is white with a silver dome sticking up, and the dome's shutters face right. Two crane arms with baskets lift two sets of workers up to the left side of the dome, while a third crane sits to the right of the large building. A gravel road cuts through the image beneath the small observatory's hill on the right, up to the large building on the left.
    Wide View of Rubin
  • This video from an overhead drone circles clockwise around a white observatory building with shiny silver dome, showing that the dome looks nearly complete. Around 45 seconds in, the fly-around restarts and now shows two people standing on top of the dome who look tiny compared to the entire dome and building.
    Dome Fly-around of Rubin Observatory, January 2023
  • the yellow orb of the moon glows just above the horizon to the left of a white observatory building on a rocky landscape with a silver dome shining in the moonlight. The horizon cuts through the center of the image, and sparse clouds add interest to the early morning blue-tinted sky
    Photobombed by the Moon
  • This video shows the telescope mount assembly rotating on the x and y axis simultaneously.
    TMA Moves December 2022
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the auxiliary telescope on a hill to the right and construction storage units in the foreground
    Rubin Observatory November 2022
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the auxiliary telescope on a hill to the right and construction storage units in the foreground. A bright moon is visible over the observatory, filtered through clouds
    Rubin Observatory November 2022
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the telescope mount visible through the open dome
    Rubin Observatory November 2022
  • Wide view of Rubin Observatory with the telescope mount visible through the open dome
    Rubin Observatory December 2022
  • 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
  • A view of Rubin Observatory with the sun setting behind it and layers of orange sky at the horizon
    Rubin Observatory December 2022
  • Close view of Rubin Observatory with the dome open and the telescope mount peeking through the opening
    Rubin Observatory December 2022
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