Behind the scenes of the world’s greatest motion picture
A complete image of the southern sky will be stitched together every few days for 10 years, creating a stop-motion movie of tens of billions of stars and galaxies.
Once in place atop Rubin Observatory’s telescope, the largest digital camera ever build for astronomy will help researchers understand dark energy and other mysteries of the universe.
It would take nearly 400 ultra-high-definition TV screens to display an LSST Camera image full size, and the resolution is so high you could spot a golf ball from 15 miles away.
Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing Rubin Observatory for the arrival of the camera that will capture the most far-reaching images of the night sky ever taken.
An old law still holds for quirky quantum materials
The surprising finding is important for understanding unconventional superconductors and other materials where electrons band together to act collectively.
Lunchtime soccer and Philly cheesesteaks: Ashley Fellows on working at SLAC
This year’s fellows are facilitating particle accelerator research, working on the LSST Camera and finding faster ways to process massive data sets. But these aren’t their only missions.
Secretary of Energy celebrates X-ray laser upgrade
Jennifer Granholm and other U.S. Department of Energy officials toured SLAC’s labs last week and joined President Saller in a toast to “first light” at LCLS-II.
As KIPAC celebrates 20 years, its future is bright
As the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology celebrates its 20th anniversary, its scientists look forward to new telescopes and unprecedented volumes of data.
SLAC scientist and self-avowed tinkerer Peter Dahlberg combined two complex imaging techniques to contextualize high-resolution images of individual proteins in cells.
John Sarrao begins his tenure as SLAC’s sixth director
A materials scientist who specializes in superconductors, Sarrao brings a deep background in national lab leadership and the evolution of SLAC science.
The molecular recipe for climate change-resistant plants
Ritimukta Sarangi, senior scientist at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, on what X‑ray tools reveal about plant roots and the soil around them.
Beyond a few billion years ago, galaxies are too distant for even the most powerful telescopes to resolve. A new technique could allow astrophysicists to map the entire universe, which is about 14 billion years old.
