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LSST camera focal plane

LSST camera focal plane

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky about the size of 40 full moons.

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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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