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A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller...

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Simulation of the formation of the dark matter structure surrounding the Milky Way, from the early universe to today.

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This video highlights recent work on the cryostat for the LSST Camera of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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SLAC’s camera assembly clean room completed in 2015

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Attendees at the KIPAC 20th Anniversary Community Day festival will observe the sun through telescopes and sun-spotters.

Visitors at KIPAC are observing the sun through telescopes and sun-spotters.

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This is a representation of a particle beam traveling through an accelerator.

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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.

Public Lecture Poster

Spacetime and quantum mechanics are the pillars of our modern understanding of fundamental physics.

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Margaux Lopez is the logistics lead for shipping the LSST Camera to Chile. The world's largest digital camera, crafted at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...

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Hannah Pollek, a SLAC mechanical engineer, gives us an inside look at how the LSST camera will photograph the southern night sky once it...

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Risa Wechsler, astrophysicist explains: 85% of the matter in the universe is dark matter, a substance that interacts through gravity but doesn't emit light.

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Public lecture presented by Chelsea Bartram

FACET-II test facility

Simulation of the formation of dark matter structure around the Milky Way

LSST’s Cryostat Assembly Completed

SLAC’s camera assembly clean room

Observing the sun through telescopes

Particle beam traveling through an accelerator

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera digital sensor

The end of spacetime poster

How did SLAC ship the largest digital camera to Chile?

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create a massive timelapse of the universe

What is Dark Matter?

Radio Axion: Tuning in to the Dark Matter Airwaves (recording)