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  • Two large hauling trucks pull a 28-foot-wide, white hexagon-shaped box on a flat trailer up a grated dirt desert road. The white hexagonal box holds Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary glass mirror.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Siegfried Eggl discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to space mission planning
  • Siegfried Eggl discusses how Rubin Observatory will contribute to space mission planning
  • 2023 Holiday Card
  • Rubin Observatory features prominently in the center of this drone video atop its Chilean desert summit on Cerro Pachón. The sky is clear blue, and the setting sun initially glows from the right, shifting left as the drone flies clockwise around the observatory. A large crane sits next to the observatory with its arm extended, looking small compared to the observatory building. The desert mountains recede into the distance, interspersed with hazy atmosphere.
    Drone video of Rubin in December 2023
  • A 60-second video showing the Rubin Observatory telescope moving during balance testing to ensure the telescope is properly balanced for other future tests. The first 25 seconds shows the large teal mount structure from above, moving from a tilt of 45 degrees to vertical, then down to horizontal and back to vertical. From 25 to 35 seconds, we see the large teal mount structure from floor level, tilting from vertical down to horizontal. From 35 seconds to the end, we see the large teal mount structure from above again. It's pointed vertical and spins like a top counterclockwise, then pauses, then spins clockwise, then pauses, and finally spins counterclockwise again.
    TMA Balance and Dynamic Testing
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Boom! Using Supernovae to Map our Expanding Universe
  • Boom! Using Supernovae to Map our Expanding Universe (Spanish version)
  • 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
  • Stars appear to rain down upon Rubin Observatory and the surrounding Chilean landscape in this night sky timelapse above Cerro Pachón. The long service building and tall silver dome of the observatory feature prominently on the right, and the distant city lights of La Serena shine in the lower left just behind a desert mountain ridge.
    Evening on Cerro Pachón
  • The Rubin mirror cell surrogate mass on the platform lift. The surrogate mass is a criss-crossing structure of yellow steel. The mass is about as tall as a person, but several times larger in the other two dimensions. The observatory platform lift is a huge, open elevator used to transport large equipment, so the Chilean desert is visible on the other side. The lift is at its highest level, meaning that the portion of the building roof above it has been raised as well
    Mass Surrogate Removal
  • This landscape video is divided into three vertical panels. The left panel contains caption and credit text reading "Process of installing the last Cryo refrigeration cabinet beneath the SST. Bruno Quint." The center and right panels show a timelapse from two different angles of five people moving a large metal box into position using a green cart.
    Refrigeration cabinet install
  • 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
  • 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
  • This video shows the telescope mount assembly rotating on the x and y axis simultaneously.
    TMA Moves December 2022
  • This timelapse video shows the construction of Rubin Observatory from 2011-2022
    Rubin construction timelapse
  • A video demonstrating the movement of black, fan-shaped mirror covers that expand and retract
    Mirror cover test
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