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The raft is part of the sensor array that will make up the crucial camera segment of the telescope.

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Focal plane of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera.

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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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Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles.

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SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the...

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The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile. Down below the mountain...

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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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The LSST camera will sit atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope high in the Andes of Chile.

The camera will sit atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope high in the Andes of Chile.

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

Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build

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Travis Lange updates us on the LSST camera's journey to Chile for the Vera Rubin Observatory. With its 3.2-billion-pixel sensor, the world's largest digital...

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The data acquisition system for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera starts right at the back of the...

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

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Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Scientists Complete the First “Science Raft” for the LSST

Focal plane of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera

LSST’s Cryostat Assembly Completed

LSST Camera filter inspection

LSST Camera r-band optical filter

The Rubin Observatory's giant data acquisition system

Vera Rubin

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope

LSST Camera focal plane build

What is the LSST Camera for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory?

LSST camera data acquisition system

Head of Romanesco