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

Diagram with icons depicting how X-ray studies, machine learning and lab work (left) were used to study electrode nanoparticles (center) for batteries used in electric vehicles, consumer electronics and solar power (right).

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen holds a single Tesla battery cell inside the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC.

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen demonstrates how he works in the Battery Informatics Lab at SLAC. 

Stanford postdoctoral researcher Stephen Dongmin Kang, left, demonstrates how he works at a modular glovebox workstation while Stanford postdoc Jungjin Park works at a neighboring computer in a SLAC battery lab.

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...