Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024
View of Rubin Observatory at sunset in May 2024. 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. Rubin will do this over and over for 10 years, creating a timelapse view of the Universe that’s unlike anything we’ve seen before.
Alt text: Drone view of 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 sits against a yellow and orange sky and gray clouds, with rolling mountain ridges in varying shades of purple and pink fading into the background.
Credit:O. Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2417b |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | July 15, 2024, 11 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2417 |
Size: | 4025 x 2264 px |
About the Object
Category: | Vera C. Rubin Observatory |