A drone captures a sweeping view of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory at sunset in 2024, perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile. The observatory is preparing to begin a 10-year survey of the southern sky, taking a new image every 30 seconds and collecting around 2,000 images every three nights. This ambitious effort will create an unprecedented 3D time-lapse of the universe.
(Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Sunrise timelapse of SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)
(Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Aerial view of SLAC’s campus. Stanford campus and Hoover tower can be seen in the distance.
(Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
SLAC’s campus looking south with Interstate 280 in the distance.
(Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
The undulator hall, where electrons pass through precisely engineered magnetic arrays to generate soft and hard X-ray laser light.
(Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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