It will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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...

The LSST camera integration and testing team inserted a raft of nine imaging sensors into the body of the ComCam. This miniature version of...

The LSST cryostat, now fully assembled, will keep the camera’s image sensors continuously cooled to minus 150 degrees Fahrenheit for crisp, high-sensitivity views of...

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) announced today that Dr. Steven M. Kahn will assume the role of Director of the...

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the most thorough survey ever of the Southern sky.

LSST Will Capture Unprecedented View of Night Sky

The LSST system will alert scientists to changes in space in near-real time.

Two recent meetings at SLAC brought together experts working on computer hardware and software for LSST – a future telescope that will provide unprecedented...

21 of these "science rafts" will go into the world's largest digital camera for astronomy, which is being assembled and tested at SLAC.

SLAC scientists and engineers celebrated the completion of a new clean room, where the lab will assemble the camera of the future Large Synoptic...

Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.