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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory at sunset
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory at sunset, high atop Cerro Pachón, a mountain in northern Chile. The 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory, equipped with the LSST Camera — the largest digital camera in the world — will take enormous images of the southern hemisphere sky, covering the entire sky every few nights.
[The NSF-Vera C. Rubin Observatory is currently under construction and is a federal project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.]
Learn about the Rubin Observatory. (Date of image: May 20, 2024; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: July 26, 2024)
Credit: O. Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (available under Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International)
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