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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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Symmetry Magazine

Searching for the matter that hides its shine

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

May 16, 2023
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LSST Camera

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

SLAC’s camera assembly clean room completed in 2015
March 22, 2023
SLAC’s camera assembly clean room
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Roman Space Telescope and Rubin Observatory scientists collaborate on a giant testbed of simulated galaxies

The synthetic galaxy catalog will help test Roman's capabilities and foster collaboration with the Rubin project. 

March 13, 2023  ·  4 min read
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Finding art in astrophysics technology

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

November 22, 2022
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‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

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...

October 24, 2022
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LSST explainer

Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.
October 4, 2022
LSST Explainer | Mapping the universe
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SLAC Recent History: Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe

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...
September 29, 2022  ·  00:06:59  runtime
Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe
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LSST r-band optical filter

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...
September 23, 2022
SLAC's LSST team carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter.
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LSST camera focal plane

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...
September 23, 2022
LSST camera focal plane
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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 LSST Camera.
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LSST raft installation

Hannah Pollek (right) and Travis Lange at the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) raft installation.
September 23, 2022
Hannah Pollek (right), and Travis Lange at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) raft installation.