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The NSF-DOE Vera C. 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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Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 158
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Rubin Observatory will bring new capabilities to the studies of dark matter and dark energy.

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Inserting rafts into the focal plane of the LSST Camera was a high-stakes operation that took about six months.

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Vera C. Rubin Observatory will conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will collect 60 petabytes of data to address...

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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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Taking the first 3,200-megapixel images was an important first test for the focal plane.

LSSTCam Focal Plane Projector
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Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may help astrophysicists understand what causes a...

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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Vera Rubin, giant of astronomy

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be named for an influential astronomer who left the field better than she found it.

Vera Rubin
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As the massive LSST camera project reaches its culmination, Hannah Pollek is one of the engineers in the clean room each day putting the...

Hannah Pollek Portrait
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The LSST camera integration and testing team is slowly assembling the camera’s focal plane

LSST Camera raft installation
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His work aims to deepen our understanding of dark matter, dark energy and other secrets of the universe.

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

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