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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.

Public Lecture Poster

Public Lecture Poster

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In this conceptual art, an electron and positron collide, resulting in a B meson (not shown) and an antimatter B-bar meson, which then decays...

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When stars explode, the supernovas send off shock waves like the one shown in this artist's rendition, which accelerate protons...

Artist's rendition of a supernova shock wave

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In this illustration, two protons collide at high energy, producing a Higgs boson that instantly decays, producing two tau particles...

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In repeatedly and systematically surveying the sky with deep, large-field-of-view images in six optical color bands on a 3 billion pixel camera for years...

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When the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) opened its giant eye last week and began taking pictures of the ancient light from far-off galaxies, more...

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Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

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The SuperCDMS dark matter experiment will be located at the Canadian laboratory SNOLAB, 2 kilometers (6,800 feet) underground inside a...

Public Lecture Poster

Public lecture called A sparkle in the dark: the outlandish quest for dark matter

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Artistic representation of a neural network superimposed on an electron beam profile.

Who we are

SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Observing the sun through telescopes

Whispers of the Big Bang

Dark side of the universe

B to D-Star-Tau-Nu

Supernova shock wave

Higgs jet diagram

The LSST: Knowing the Telescope Before It is Built

First Images from the Dark Energy Camera Help SLAC-Stanford Astrophysicists Seek the Invisible

Getting the Jump on Big Data for LSST

SuperCDMS Location

A sparkle in the dark poster

Neural network