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SLAC's LSST Camera inside clean room

The 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC. The camera is the central component of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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The LSST Camera explores cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

 The background shows a compilation of the first images taken with the LSST Camera at Rubin Observatory. The overlay shows the LSST Camera in the cleanroom at SLAC before it was shipped to be installed into the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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The camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other...

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