Mechanical engineer Travis Lange carefully watches the installation of the 14th  raft tower modules.

Dwarf Galaxy 3

This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.

The largest digital camera ever built for ground-based astronomy, the 3.2-gigapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera is the size of a small...

Kavli Institute for Partical Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) scientist Ralf Kaehler, at work here in the "Vizlab," and colleagues use computer visualizations to simulate...

Head of Romanesco image taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.

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

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

SLAC’s camera assembly clean room completed in 2015

The LSST Camera's digital sensor, visible through the camera's five-foot front lens.