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Rubin Observatory photographs pretty well, in our (not so) humble opinion ✨ Celebrate #WorldPhotographyDay with us by grabbing one of these new wallpapers for your phone! 📱📷

Rubin Observatory from above on its desert summit site under blue skies, with mountains receding into the background. Rubin is a boot-like shape at center, with a long white service building extending toward left and angular silver dome rising on the right. Patchy snow covers the brown mountain site.

The secondary mirror of Rubin Observatory is lowered into final position on the telescope, as viewed from the other end of the telescope through the light-dispersing baffle for the primary mirror. The baffle forms a black circular border around the image. The secondary mirror supports form an X in the background with a teal ring in the center where the mirror will go. The mirror with its metal cover is just above the teal ring. Walkway platforms bisect the view from the left and right.

A snowy desert mountain landscape. In the foreground are a white shed on the left and a line-up of multi-colored shipping containers on the right. A plowed dirt road separates the shed from the containers. Snow-covered mountains rise up in the background under a partly clear sky with patchy cotton ball clouds.

Rubin Observatory on its desert site on Cerro Pachón. The angular silver dome sits on top of a white cylindrical base, and its vertical shutters are slightly open revealing a thin vertical dark line looking into the dome. A crane sits to the left, long and thin arm extended all the way over the top of the dome. The brown desert mountain landscape with thin patchy snow fills the remainder of the photo.

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