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January 13, 2020
News Feature
Connecting the dots in the sky could shed new light on dark matter
Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists understand what causes a faint cosmic gamma-ray glow.
DES-Fermi
January 7, 2020
News Feature
Symmetry
Vera Rubin, giant of astronomy
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be named for an influential astronomer who left the field better than she found it.
Vera Rubin
December 18, 2019
News Feature
A day in the life of a telescope camera assembler
As the massive LSST camera project reaches its culmination, Hannah Pollek is one of the engineers in the clean room each day putting the pieces together.
Hannah Pollek Portrait
November 6, 2019
News Feature
Daniel Gruen awarded 2019 Panofsky Fellowship at SLAC
His work aims to deepen our understanding of dark matter, dark energy and other secrets of the universe.
Photo of Panofsky fellow Daniel Gruen
June 19, 2019
News Feature
A miniature camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will help test the observatory and take first images
SLAC completed its work on ComCam, a commissioning device to be installed in Chile later this year.
LSST-ComCam
June 4, 2019
News Feature
Symmetry: Engineering the world’s largest digital camera
Building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope also means solving extraordinary technological challenges.
LSST camera engineering
March 5, 2019
News Feature
Imaging sensors installed in LSST ComCam
The LSST camera integration and testing team inserted a raft of nine imaging sensors into the body of the ComCam. This miniature version of the LSST camera will be used for telescope commissioning. Check out photos of this and other recent activity from the LSST camera clean room.
February 19, 2019
News Feature
Symmetry: An astronomical data challenge
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.
LSST Data Management
October 23, 2018
News Feature
Symmetry: The building boom
These projects, selected during the process to plan the future of US particle physics, are all set to come online within the next 10 years.
October 16, 2018
News Feature
Symmetry: Studying the stars with machine learning
To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.

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