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Taking the first 3,200-megapixel images was an important first test for the focal plane.

Inserting rafts into the focal plane of the LSST Camera was a high-stakes operation that took about six months.

video still frame of Rubin Observatory Camera Assembly TimeLapse

The second phase of a major upgrade project is now online at SLAC’S Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). On Saturday, scientists ushered an electron beam through a new undulator to produce “soft” X-rays (left). This follows the upgraded facility’s first...

An illustration shows polarons – fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice ––in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite.

Polarons, bubbles of distortion in a perovskite lattice.

As this animation shows, polaronic distortions start very small and rapidly expand outward in all directions to a diameter of about 5 billionths of a meter, which is about a 50-fold increase. This nudges about 10 layers of atoms slightly...

Animation of polaronic distortions expanding in an atomic lattice

Caterina Vernieri Public Lecture: A large camera lens

Public Lecture poster: picture of the universe

The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile.

The data acquisition system for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera starts right at the back of the focal plane, a composite of 189 digital sensors used to take night-sky images, plus several more used to line up...