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

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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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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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The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

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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...

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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 Recent History (1990s-today NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera module) – Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the...

Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe

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LSST is currently under construction in Chile. The U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is leading the construction of the LSST camera...

Stillframe image of Vera Rubin Observatory

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Inserting rafts into the focal plane of the LSST Camera was a high-stakes operation that took about six months.

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Risa Wechsler, astrophysicist explains: 85% of the matter in the universe is dark matter, a substance that interacts through gravity but doesn't emit light.

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Hannah Pollek, a SLAC mechanical engineer, gives us an inside look at how the LSST camera will photograph the southern night sky once it...

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Vera Rubin

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane

LSST Camera Raft Installation

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

SLAC's LSST Camera inside clean room

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera

LSST’s Cryostat Assembly Completed

SLAC Recent History: Building the world's largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Assembly TimeLapse

What is Dark Matter?

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create a massive timelapse of the universe