SLAC/Stanford Professor Zhi-Xun Shen (left) and SLAC staff scientist Patrick Kirchmann with the ARPES instrument used to measure electron energy and momentum in an iron selenide film.
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky about the size of 40 full moons.
Science and User Support Building to the left and Arrillaga Science Center building to the right from above the Main Quad at SLAC’s campus. Stanford University campus can be seen in the distance.
By detecting minute traces of original pigments in fossils, X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual colors of ancient life forms.