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Rubin and the Seven Sisters
The Pleiades glow in the southern sky above NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory from a viewpoint on Cerro Pachón in Chile. Rubin Observatory is jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time ( LSST ) began earlier this year on 29 June 2026. This NOIRLab Image of the Week captures the seven bright stars of the…
- Credit
- NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
- Telescope
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- NOIRLab release page