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The LSST camera integration and testing team is slowly assembling the camera’s focal plane

Public lecture called A sparkle in the dark: the outlandish quest for dark matter

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

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...

The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

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...

A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.

Arrival and inspection of the L3 lens of the LSST Camera

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LSST Camera raft installation

A sparkle in the dark poster

Focal plane of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera

First 3,200-megapixel images from the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Assembly TimeLapse

Camera for the Invisible

The Tug of War that Shapes the Universe poster

LSST data illustration

LSST camera data acquisition system

SLAC's LSST Camera inside clean room

How krypton is removed from xenon gas

L3 lens of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera