An artist's rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components including lenses, sensor array, and utility trunk.
![An artist rendering of the LSST Camera showing its major components](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-03/lsst_camera_completion_pr_sv_rendering_final.jpg?h=cef8570f&itok=CIKANZOK)
![LSST Cryostat Grid](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/29921007478_3cf8c0e0d0_k.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=SIa-OJzj)
A front view of the completed LSST Camera, showing the 3,200-megapixel focal plane within.
![A front view of the completed LSST Camera, showing the 3,200-megapixel focal plane within](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-03/Finished%20LSST%20Camera-2.jpg?h=b8d3f039&itok=Jc_3mjqv)
The LSST Camera's digital sensor, visible through the camera's five-foot front lens.
![A digital camera sensor is visible through a large camera lens sitting inside a white room.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-04/LSST%20Camera%20front%20view%20wide_0.jpg?h=4e1381de&itok=MEk7DoFr)
![SLAC’s camera assembly clean room](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-03/lsst_cleanroom.jpg?h=f7d9296c&itok=1IykkqlI)
A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera...
![Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera focal plane build.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/vera-c-rubin-observatory-lsst-camera-focal-plane-build-133_50213566712_o.jpg?h=69614c90&itok=Jv9OBGlx)
Researchers examine the LSST Camera. The camera will soon be shipped to Chile, where it will be the heart of the Vera C. Rubin...
![Researchers examine the LSST Camera](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-03/lsst_camera_completion_pr_la_final.jpg?h=f50294bb&itok=1O2OHw6l)
Hannah Pollek and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.
![Hannah Pollek (right), and Travis Lange at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) raft installation.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2019_1126_LSST_Raft_14_Installation_Orrell-34460.jpg?h=ee55a53a&itok=gwUZ4fVZ)
This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.
![LSSTCam](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lsstcam-focalplane-lowres_0.jpg?h=51d1a7e2&itok=EaRcSqSs)
SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
![SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/2019_1126_LSST_Raft_14_Installation_Orrell-34638.jpg?h=3dfceb1c&itok=9rWQVP5t)
Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th raft tower modules.
![Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/vera-c-rubin-observatory-lsst-camera-focal-plane-build-105_50212638783_o.jpg?h=68b9a15a&itok=HghWYbDh)