A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the...
SLAC Recent History (1990s-today NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera module) – Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe in search of dark matter and a detailed mapping of our solar system, such as...
LSST is currently under construction in Chile. The U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is leading the construction of the LSST camera – the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy.
Risa Wechsler, astrophysicist explains: 85% of the matter in the universe is dark matter, a substance that interacts through gravity but doesn't emit light.
Hannah Pollek, a SLAC mechanical engineer, gives us an inside look at how the LSST camera will photograph the southern night sky once it gets installed at Rubin Observatory.
