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Rubin Observatory and the SLAC-built LSST Camera image the visible southern sky over and over for a decade, creating a vast archive of data that will advance our knowledge of dark energy and dark matter.

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LSST Camera: World’s largest camera for astronomy

Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 158

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Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is currently under construction in Chile. The U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is leading the construction of its camera – the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy, which will be mounted...

Diagram of Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera lenses and filters
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SLAC’s camera assembly clean room completed in 2015
SLAC’s camera assembly clean room
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The synthetic galaxy catalog will help test Roman's capabilities and foster collaboration with the Rubin project. 

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

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The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

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Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.
LSST Explainer | Mapping the universe
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SLAC Recent History (1990s-today Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera module) – Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe...
Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe
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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...
SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter.
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Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the...
LSST camera focal plane
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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 LSST Camera.
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Hannah Pollek (right) and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.
Hannah Pollek (right), and Travis Lange at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) raft installation.