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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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  • Rubin Observatory under a night sky. The observatory is a boot shape sitting on top of its rocky summit site, made of a long white building that extends to the left and a silver angular dome sticking up. A silhouetted crane is parked to the right, and a few passenger vehicles are parked in the flat area in front of the observatory.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • The night sky from Cerro Pachón. A band of denser stars making up the Milky Way stretches vertically up through the center of the image. Tiny pinpricks of star light fill the rest of the image against a blue-black sky. The horizon is a thin strip along the very bottom of the image, with the undulating desert mountain peaks visible. Light from nearby La Serena is visible above the horizon as yellow and and green hue.
    Cerro Pachón Night Sky
  • A group of four people examine a computer monitor in the Rubin Observatory control room. Three of the people are standing, and one is sitting behind the monitor. The back wall is clear glass with a view into the open office area beyond.
    Rubin Observing Team
  • Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background. Rubin is a boot-like shape at center, with a long white service building extending away from us and to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left. The dome shutter is open, and appears as a dark vertical opening with teal support beams visible.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background. Rubin's long white service building is hidden from view, so the observatory appears as a silver cap on top of a white cylinder. The dome shutter is open, and the silver upper support ring of the telescope ring is partially visible.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site, with a vast expanse of desert mountains receding into the background. Rubin is a boot-like shape at center, with a long white service building extending to the right and angular silver dome rising on the left. A couple of neighboring telescope domes are visible on a ridge in the distance.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Two people in yellow construction vests and hard hats smile in front of the Rubin telescope mount. The mount towers behind the people and is rotated on its side. It has a yellow cross-shaped stand-in steel mass installed on the bottom, which faces the camera because of the mount's positioning.
    EPO Team in Chile
  • A person wearing a yellow construction vest and hard hat smiles to the side while holding a professional digital camera.
    Alan Strauss in Chile
  • A circular glass disk coated in blue film sits in the middle of a large maintenance area
    Rubin Primary Mirror
  • 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
  • Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A group of seven women sit at a long table for lunch in Rubin's cafeteria area.
    International Women's Day
  • 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
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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.
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two hauling trucks pull a trailer that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror inside its white hexagonal box.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Two hauling trucks pull a trailer that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror inside its white hexagonal box. They are about to begin up a small hill in the foreground.
    Mirror Glass Move
  • A large hauling trucks pulls 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. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • Rubin's stand-in surrogate steel mirror sits outside in an area flat area. The surrogate is the same size and weight as the real 8.4-meter mirror and was used for testing. A few people walk around the flat area around the surrogate mirror.
    Mirror Surrogate
  • The white hexagonal box that holds Rubin's 8.4-meter primary mirror sits on top of a flat bed trailer and is about to be hauled out of its large storage shed by a hauling truck. A person in a yellow construction vest and hard hat supervises at the left.
    Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • A large hauling trucks pulls 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. Off to the right, the large silver donut shape of the steel stand-in mass for the mirror now lies outside on the gravel .
    M1M3 glass move March 7, 2024Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror Moves into the Observatory
  • 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 and the hill it sits on are silhouetted against a yellow blue sky, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of orange fading into the background.
    Rubin Observatory March 2024
  • Three people working in protective construction gear on top of Rubin's Observatory's dome smile for the camera. The top of the dome has a walkaway extending away from the camera guarded by teal guardrails. The Chilean desert mountains are visible in the distance.
    Rubin team on the Summit
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