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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...

Past Event

Discovering millions of galaxies and unraveling the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy is far out! Join us at the Dutch Goose for...

SLAC on Tap Hannah Polleck

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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...

Stillframe of LSST video

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

Broccoli

Past Event

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...

Stillframe for public lecture

Illustration

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...

Exploded view of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera

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SLAC’s camera assembly clean room completed in 2015

SLAC’s camera assembly clean room

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

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

LSST-ComCam

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

LSST Lens

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

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from the National Science Foundation

LSST Artist's Rendering