The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special asteroid bonus.

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...

SLAC is home to the world’s largest digital camera The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera is the world’s largest digital camera ...

SLAC has over 1,600 employees, including 60 members of Stanford’s faculty and many graduate students. The underground accelerator was built in the 1960s to do research on particle physics.

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

Speaking through a SLAC release, Roodman said the camera’s images could “resolve a golf ball from around 15 miles away, while covering a swath of the sky seven times wider than the full moon.” ...

SLAC covers 426 acres, starting near Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and extending into the rolling hills behind Stanford along Highway 280. Sand Hill Road is well known as the location of the ...

SLAC is one of 17 DOE-supported national laboratories in the U.S., and each one is affiliated in some way with a university, but Dunne said that the depth of SLAC’s partnership with Stanford in ...

SLAC is home to the world’s largest digital camera The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera is the world’s largest digital camera ...