Images from the world’s largest camera, built in the Bay Area, have just been released, providing a first-of-its-kind window across deep space. Over the next decade, the device, mounted on a telescope ...
We first heard of plans by the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to build a huge astro camera with a 3.2-gigapixel resolution way back in 2012. The world's largest digital ...
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory sits atop a Chilean mountain named Cerro Pachón, at 8,684 feet above sea level. (Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/A ...
Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is an 18-story facility that will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 ...