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Photo of Vera Rubin taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.

Photo of Vera Rubin, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science, where Vera Rubin spent her career as a staff scientist

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Putting the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower safely back into its storage container.

SCU physics Professor, Software Developer, and Senior Staff Scientist put the SuperCDMS tower safely back into its storage container.

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A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera...

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera focal plane build.

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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...

Vera Rubin

SuperCDMS tower

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera focal plane build

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?