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LSST Camera explainer

Built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics. The camera is at the heart of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will capture the entire southern sky every 3 nights. Data from the camera will help address some of the most pressing questions in cosmology, such as the nature of dark energy and dark matter, as well as advancing the study of our solar system and the changing night sky.

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