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.
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.
SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the completed LSST Camera.
Stanford Research Computing Facility (SRCF) on SLAC's campus. The facility supports scientific endeavors that require the handling of unprecedented data streams.