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This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column of charcoal (black specks). Both elements stick to the charcoal, but krypton is not as strongly attached and gets swept...

Arrival and inspection of the L3 lens of the LSST Camera

Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles. 

Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th  raft tower modules.

Dwarf Galaxy 3

This photo shows a small fuel cell inside of a sample chamber at SLAC's SSRL. This experimental station allows scientists to study fuel cells under more realistic conditions. 

This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.

A muon, center, spins like a top within the atomic lattice of a thin film of superconducting nickelate.

Hannah Pollek and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.

The largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy, the 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera is the size of a small car and weighs more than 3 tons.

Members of SLAC’s LZ team with the loom they used to weave high-voltage grids for the next-gen dark matter experiment.