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This image captures a small section of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster, offering a vivid glimpse of the variety...

A small section of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s view of the Virgo Cluster, offering a vivid glimpse of the variety in the cosmos

News Release

The technology could save the lives of COVID-19 patients when more advanced ventilators are too expensive or not available.

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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 NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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From left, SCU Physics Prof. Betty Young, Software Developer Concetta "Tina" Cartaro and Senior Staff Scientist Richard Partridge put the fourth, and final, SuperCDMS...

The fourth, and final, SuperCDMS tower is put back into its storage container

News Brief

Researchers with the Doudna group used SSRL to uncover how viruses use special enzymes to evade a host's defenses.

A view of SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), looking west at sunset.

News Release

In the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN's latest results provide the strongest constraints on low-mass WIMPs and detect boron-8...

Overhead view looking down into a white structure with dozens of orange circular components arranged radially.

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address...

The CryoEM (cryogenic electron microscopy) facility at SLAC, built and operated in partnership with Stanford University, is equipped with multiple state-of-the-art instruments for cryoEM.

A downloadable PDF fact sheet about the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the SLAC-built LSST Camera that will be used for the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

News Brief

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time.

Photo of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in the Chilean Andes at night.

SLAC Science Explained

The LSST Camera explores cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

The background shows a compilation of the first images taken with the LSST Camera at Rubin Observatory. The overlay shows the LSST Camera in the cleanroom at SLAC before it was shipped to be installed into the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the SLAC-built LSST Camera and NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.

Cosmic Abundance

SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator and share the design for free

LSST Camera Raft Installation

SuperCDMS tower

New method uncovers how viruses evade immune responses — and how we might fight back

LZ sets a world’s best in the hunt for galactic dark matter and gets a new look at neutrinos from the sun’s core

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Facilities

Fact sheet: Rubin Observatory - LSST Camera

Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

LSST Camera: A moving picture of the cosmos

LSST Camera explainer