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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.

NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.

The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

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  • Illustrated graphic showing the elements of the Rubin Observatory education and outreach program. The graphic has a teal background with randomly arranged circles in different shades of teal. The Rubin Space Surveyors game logo is on the left. In the top center are three circular illustrated icons representing the education program. The icons are a solar system, a supernova with outgoing light rays, and a black and white galaxy with a colored paint stroke through the middle. In the bottom center, five trading cards feature different people. In the top right, a laptop displays the Rubin website. In the bottom right, four still frames from animated videos are layered on top of each other.
    EPO Program Rollout Image
  • Illustration of Rubin Observatory detecting supernovae in the night sky. The observatory is a boot-shaped building at bottom-right, with long white service building and tall angular dome. A cottony band extends from lower left to upper right, representing the denser stars of our home galaxy's core region. Scattered in the sky are larger white points representing the exploding supernovae, and Rubin's square-shaped view captures a small portion of sky (and some supernovae) above the observatory).
    Artist’s Illustration of Rubin Observatory Capturing Supernovae
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  • Illustration of the LSST Camera focal plane detector, which is made of 189 square CCD chips arranged in a square shape that's missing the corners. An illustrated full moon is shown for scale, covering just less than a 3x3 grid of the 189 CCD chips, or about 1/20th of the entire detector.
    LSST Camera focal plane diagram
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    Animation of Vera C. Rubin
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