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News Release

World’s Most Powerful Camera Receives Funding Approval

Plans to build the world’s largest digital camera at SLAC have reached a major milestone, with funding approval for the 3,200-megapixel camera. The camera...

January 9, 2015  ·  3 min read
Past Event
SLAC on Tap

What’s the (dark) Matter with our Universe? Rubin Observatory is on the Case!

Discovering millions of galaxies and unraveling the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy is far out! Join us at the Dutch Goose for...
Date Thursday, August 22, 2024
5:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas Menlo Park, CA 94025
SLAC on Tap Hannah Polleck
Video

How did SLAC ship the largest digital camera to Chile?

Margaux Lopez is the logistics lead for shipping the LSST Camera to Chile. The world's largest digital camera, crafted at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...

July 25, 2024  ·  00:02:48  runtime
Stillframe of LSST video
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Feature
VIA Symmetry Magazine

Finding art in astrophysics technology

LSST Camera images provide the inspiration for artist Lennart Lahuis’s “Astromelancholia.”

November 22, 2022
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Past Event
Public lecture

The Dark Universe Through Einstein's Lens

Presented by Debbie Bard. One of the most surprising predictions made by Einstein's theory of relativity is that light doesn't travel through the universe...

Date Tuesday, July 23, 2013
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
Stillframe for public lecture
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Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera

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...

September 23, 2022
Exploded view of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera
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SLAC’s camera assembly clean room

SLAC’s camera assembly clean room completed in 2015

March 22, 2023
SLAC’s camera assembly clean room
News Release

World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC.

August 31, 2015  ·  5 min read
Feature

A miniature camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will help test the observatory and take first images

SLAC completed its work on ComCam, a commissioning device to be installed in Chile later this year.

June 19, 2019  ·  4 min read
LSST-ComCam
News Release

World's Largest Digital Camera Project Passes Critical Milestone

Menlo Park, Calif. — A 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera designed by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is now one step closer to reality.

April 24, 2012  ·  3 min read
LSST Lens
News Release

Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3,200-megapixel images at SLAC

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

September 8, 2020  ·  9 min read
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Feature

NSF: Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Approved to Advance to Final Design Stage

from the National Science Foundation

July 18, 2012  ·  1 min read
LSST Artist's Rendering
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