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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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    • Illustrated image showing a young Vera Rubin looking through a telescope, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the background, and surrounded by dark matter and stars. The image has an almost stained glass appearance with different segments of the image in different colors of the rainbow.
      Illustration of Vera Rubin and Rubin Observatory
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    • Light rays reflect from 3 mirrors in succession before passing through 3 consecutive lenses and into the camera.
      Path of light through Rubin mirrors
    • Light rays reflect from 3 mirrors in succession before passing through 3 consecutive lenses and into the camera.
      Path of light through Rubin mirrors
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    • An artist’s impression of streams of stars around a galaxy. The galaxy occupies most of the image as a fuzzy blue-white oval with spiral features extending out clockwise. The light clouds are interspersed with small dark brown splotches in the same spiral pattern around the center, representing dust clouds. The galaxy’s center is a bright yellow glow. Overlaid on top of and surrounding the galaxy are several criss-crossing, faint tendrils of stars that represent satellite dwarf galaxies and star clusters that have been stretched out into long thin lines. The tendrils have various lengths and widths, though all are arcs rather than complete circles. The background is black.
      Artist’s Impression: Stellar streams in and around the Milky Way
    • How Rubin Observatory covers the sky
    • How Rubin Observatory covers the sky
    • 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.
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    • Interstellar object rapidly approaching our Solar System
    • An illustration of the solar system showing the paths of the two confirmed interstellar objects. The solar system spans most of the image and has two distinct regions. The outer Kuiper Belt region is a large, fuzzy donut of thousands of icy asteroids and comets spanning half of the total radius of the full solar system illustration. The inner region contains the orbits of the eight planets, drawn as white concentric circles viewed from a slightly elevated angle so they appear as ovals. The path of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, is a red V-shape that opens to the top right, with its closest point to the Sun inside Mercury’s orbit. The path of the second interstellar object, Borisov, is a teal U-shape that opens to the top right, wider than 'Oumuamua's V, with its closest point to the Sun outside Mars’s orbit.
      Confirmed Interstellar Object Paths
    • An animated illustration of the solar system showing the paths of the two confirmed interstellar objects. The solar system spans most of the image and has two distinct regions. The outer Kuiper Belt region is a large, fuzzy donut of thousands of icy asteroids and comets spanning half of the total radius of the full solar system illustration. The inner region contains the orbits of the eight planets, drawn as white concentric circles viewed from a slightly elevated angle so they appear as ovals. The path of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, is a red V-shape that opens to the top right, with its closest point to the Sun inside Mercury’s orbit. The path of the second interstellar object, Borisov, is a teal U-shape that opens to the top right, wider than 'Oumuamua's V, with its closest point to the Sun outside Mars’s orbit. After a few seconds, the view rotates counterclockwise to demonstrate the Solar System's 3D nature. At 15 seconds, the view rotates back clockwise. At 27 seconds, the view tilts away from us and zooms out.
      Confirmed Interstellar Object Paths Video
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    • Weblike strands criss-cross this illustration. A closer look reveals that the strands are made of many dots of different sizes and shapes representing galaxies. In the voids between strands, the illustration has a blue, cloudy appearance. The strands themselves are within dark, clear areas representing the presence of dark matter
      Revealing dark matter
    • This illustration shows a white observatory building on a dark mountaintop underneath a starry night sky. The Milky Way galaxy appears as a cloudy band from left to right in the sky. The illustration as a whole has a blue tinted appearance.
      Rubin Observatory under the night sky
    • An illustration showing three different times in astronomer Vera Rubin's life. The top two thirds of the illustration depict an older Vera Rubin against a yellow background, and she is wearing a medal award. The bottom third of the illustration is divided in half vertically. On the left is a young Vera Rubin standing at the eyepiece of a large telescope, against a teal background. On the right, an older Vera Rubin stands behind a podium as if speaking to an audience.
      Astronomer and advocate Vera Rubin
    • This illustration depicts an owl standing on bare tree branches that extend out of view. The owl is brown with speckles of white and different shades of brown. It has vivid yellow eyes, and stands such that its head is turned to look back at us. The background is a teal-hued night sky with stars and the cloudy band of the Milky Way running from left to right.
      Flighted resident of Cerro Pachón
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