Rubin’s 8.4-meter Mirror is Officially Home

Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter combined primary/tertiary mirror is officially home after being moved to the main observatory’s maintenance floor, where it will remain for the rest of the construction phase and throughout Rubin’s ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/O. Rivera

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