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Description
A new era in ground-based optical astronomy is about to start with the completion of the Vera Rubin Observatory in Cerro Pachón (Chile) and the beginning of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). End of 2024, the Vera Rubin Observatory completed successfully comprehensive systems tests with the engineering test camera (or commissioning camera, ComCam). In early March 2025, the largest digital camera in the world, the LSST Camera, was installed on the 8-4-meter Simonyi Survey telescope and the commissioning started. In June 2025, first results were announced worldwide. It is expected that the 10-years LSST survey of the southern sky will begin in the coming months. In this talk, I will review the status of the Vera Rubin Observatory, the main science programs, and the synergies between AtLAST and LSST. On February 25 2026, the Rubin Observatory began streaming transient and variable alerts to the scientific community. I will give a quick overview and examples of the Rubin alerts and how they are processed by the Rubin Observatory and the LSST brokers.