Inside the Vera Rubin Auxiliary Telescope in Chile | NOIRLab

Inside the Vera Rubin Auxiliary Telescope in Chile | NOIRLab

Bask in the red lights and enjoy a night inside the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope. As the telescope slews to its various targets, the Large Magellanic Cloud (0:03) and the Milky Way (0:08) peek through the dome slit.

The jointly funded National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Department of Energy Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a brand new astronomy and astrophysics facility that is nearing completion on Cerro Pachón in Chile. It is named after the astronomer Vera Rubin. She provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter. 

Learn more about Vera Rubin and the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope:

https://rubinobservatory.org/about/vera-rubin
https://noirlab.edu/public/programs/vera-c-rubin-observatory/rubin-auxtel/

Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/ T. Slovinský
Duration: 23 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 8, 2023

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