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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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LSST Camera: World’s largest camera for astrophysics

Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build 158

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To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.

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The LSST cryostat, now fully assembled, will keep the camera’s image sensors continuously cooled to minus 150 degrees Fahrenheit for crisp, high-sensitivity views of...

LSST Camera Cryostat Grid
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View into the LSST cryostat assembly.

LSST Camera Cryostat Grid
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This video highlights recent work on the cryostat for the LSST Camera of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.

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As members of the lab’s Computer Science Division, they develop the tools needed to handle ginormous data volumes produced by the next generation of...

SLAC Computer Science Team
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21 of these "science rafts" will go into the world's largest digital camera for astronomy, which is being assembled and tested at SLAC.

First LSST Science Raft
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Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.

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The astrophysicist is recognized for her leadership, mentorship and innovative work in understanding how galaxies form.

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SLAC and Stanford researchers demonstrate that brain-mimicking ‘neural networks’ can revolutionize the way astrophysicists analyze their most complex data, including extreme distortions in spacetime...

Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
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KIPAC scientists have for the first time used artificial neural networks to analyze complex distortions in spacetime, called gravitational lenses, demonstrating that the method...

Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
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SLAC and Stanford astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological...

Blanco Telescope