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SAGE campers have fun experimenting with a Van de Graff generator.

Harnessing nuclear fusion would bring the clean, unlimited energy of the stars to Earth.

As a member of a collaborative team led by General Atomics, SLAC will help bridge basic research programs with the growing fusion industry.

Graphic representation of lasers hitting a fusion fuel target in a fusion target chamber

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 mysteries of our universe.

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history.

A person in a hard hat looks at a giant black lens cap surrounded by a mirror.

Researchers positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful than before.

Claudio Emma and Brendan O’Shea examine experimental apparatus.

Learn more about the LSST Camera for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory led the construction of the LSST Camera – the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.

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SLAC to develop fusion energy target technology as part of DOE Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives

SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory installs LSST Camera on telescope

SLAC scientists created the most powerful ultrashort electron beam in the world

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