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Symmetry: A Telescope that Tells You When to Look Up
The LSST system will alert scientists to changes in space in near-real time.
Cosmic Inflation Remains Undiscovered
A previous study claiming the discovery of gravitational waves as cosmic inflation’s fingerprint has most likely been over-interpreted, scientists found in a joint analysis between the Planck and BICEP2 experiments.
World’s Most Powerful Camera Receives Funding Approval
Plans to build the world’s largest digital camera at SLAC have reached a major milestone, with funding approval for the 3,200-megapixel camera. The camera will be the centerpiece of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will provide unprecedented details of the universe and help address some of its biggest mysteries.
Tom Abel Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abel, associate physics professor at Stanford and at SLAC and acting director of KIPAC, was recognized for the advances he’s made using supercomputers to explore the first billion years of cosmic history.
Symmetry: Cosmic Inflation
Cosmic inflation refers to a period of rapid, accelerated expansion that scientists think took place about 14 billion years ago.
Symmetry: Science Hack Day
Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco.
Symmetry: Dark Energy Survey Kicks Off Second Season
In September, DES will make data collected in its first season freely available to researchers.
Symmetry: Open Access to the Universe
A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.
Symmetry: Science on Demand
Brian Greene welcomes the Internet to physics class with World Science U.
Construction of Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to Begin
SLAC is leading the construction of LSST's 3,200-megapixel camera. The telescope will start surveying the entire visible southern sky in 2022.
