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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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Jeff Tice, background, holds the particle counter while Travis Lange inspects the surface of the r-band optical filter for dust particles. 

LSST lens inspection
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Arrival and inspection of the L3 lens of the LSST Camera

Arrival and inspection of the L3 lens of the LSST Camera
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The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

Front Page - LSST Camera
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From left, Travis Lange, Hannah Pollek and LLNL’s Justin Wolfe inspect LSST Camera optic filters.

Inspection of the LSST Camera optic filters
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An extension of the Stanford Research Computing Facility will host several data centers to handle the unprecedented data streams that will be produced by...

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This photo shows the 3,200-megapixel focal plane of Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera, under construction at SLAC.

LSSTCam
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It will explore cosmic mysteries as part of the Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

LSST camera focal plane
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The data acquisition system starts right at the back of the focal plane, a composite of 189 digital sensors used...
LSST data acquisition system
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The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile.

LSST data illustration
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The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile. Down below the mountain...

LSST data illustration
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This month marks the 30-year anniversary of the first website in North America, launched at SLAC. In this Q&A, one of the Wizards recalls...

Group photo of SLAC WWW Wizards in an office
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Managing the unprecedented amount of data that will soon stream from Rubin Observatory means more than buying tons of hard drives. SLAC scientist Richard...

A bearded man with glasses poses at a railing inside a building.