Aaron Roodman is the Deputy Director of the Vera Rubin Observatory: 30 years in the making, this new observatory will revolutionize our view of the universe by capturing over 20 billion galaxies and identifying millions of cosmic changes every night.
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.
Travis Lange updates us on the LSST camera's journey to Chile for the Vera Rubin Observatory. With its 3.2-billion-pixel sensor, the world's largest digital camera for astronomy aims to create a detailed 3D 10-year timelapse of the universe.
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.
A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.