The raft is part of the sensor array that will make up the crucial camera segment of the telescope.

Two astrophysicists and a theoretical physicist discuss how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy by taking an unprecedentedly enormous scan of the sky.

Using Twinkles, the new simulation of images of our night sky, scientists get ready for a gigantic cosmological survey unlike any before.

Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

LSST is currently under construction in Chile. The U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is leading the construction of the LSST camera – the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy.

Finding ways to handle torrents of data from LSST and LCLS-II will also advance “exascale” computing.

Next-generation telescopic surveys will work hand-in-hand with supercomputers to study the nature of dark energy.

A recent uptick in the discovery of the smallest, oldest galaxies benefits studies of dark matter, galaxy formation and the evolution of the unive

When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) begins in 2022 to take images of the entire southern night sky over and over again for 10 years, it will produce deeper, wider and faster views of the cosmos than any other...

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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC.