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.
