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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

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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...

Symmetry is an online particle physics magazine that is jointly published by Fermilab and SLAC.

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.

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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.

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Cosmologists Josh Frieman and Risa Wechsler look back on the Dark Energy Survey, sharing how it’s paving the way for Rubin Observatory to dig...

SLAC Experts

Areas of research: Physics of the universe; cosmology; astrophysical simulations; galaxy formation; galaxy surveys; dark matter; dark energy

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First peer-reviewed paper using data from SLAC-built LSST Camera identifies an asteroid, nearly the size of eight football fields, rotating every two minutes.

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Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other...

SuperCDMS tower

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

Symmetry magazine

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

What is the universe made of? SLAC experts weigh in on the mysterious force that shapes our cosmic history

Risa Wechsler

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots record-breaking asteroid in pre-survey observations

SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy