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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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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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VIA Stanford

‘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
Aerial photo of SLAC research yard
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LSST camera explainer

Learn about the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Vera C. Rubin Observatory in this video.

October 4, 2022  ·  00:05:58  runtime
LSST Explainer | Mapping the universe
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Vera Rubin

Photo of Vera Rubin taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.

September 30, 2022
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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Head of Romanesco

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

September 30, 2022
Head of Romanesco image taken with the focal plane of the LSST Camera.
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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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Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST camera focal plane build

A SLAC team installs the final components of the LSST Camera focal plane that will become the heart and soul of the future camera...

September 28, 2022
Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera focal plane build.
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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

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky...

September 23, 2022
LSST camera focal plane
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LSST Raft Installation

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

September 23, 2022
SLAC’s LSST camera will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
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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 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.