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A map of the sky showing the density of galaxy clusters, galaxies and matter in the universe over the part of the sky observed by the Dark Energy Survey. The left panel shows the galaxy density in that part of...

Looking east down SLAC's 2-mile long linear accelerator toward Stanford and the San Francisco Bay.

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

SLAC aerial map

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory sits on more than 400 acres of Stanford land, just west of the main campus.

Al Ashley with internship program fellows in 2012. From left: Dorian Bohler, Manuel A. Carrasco, Al Ashley, Darius Morris, Eduardo Perez Gatica, Antonio Cedillos.

This movie shows the transition of a gold sample from a solid (dotted pattern) to a liquid (ring pattern) after being heated by a laser pulse. It was taken with SLAC’s ultrafast “electron” camera, an instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction...

At the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, researchers recreated the extreme conditions found on Neptune and Uranus and observed the formation of diamond rain.   Details

Image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is mounted on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in the Chilean Andes.    Details

The electric field aligns the spins of the electrons in the nonmagnetic material, and the ordering creates magnetic properties.