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ALT A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.
ALT A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.
ALT A completed camera for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, built by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Credit: SLAC/ Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell)
ALT The world's largest digital camera, the LSST Camera built by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, installed in the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The logos of SLAC and the Observatory are visible and a worker sits to the right of the camera providing scale.
ALT Image of the completed LSST camera, the world's largest camera ever built for astronomy. The full sensor is exposed, revealing squares of light and dark blue. Photo by Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
ALT The SLAC LSST Camera team stands front of the fully assembled camera. They're all wearing full clean room outfits that are white and cover their faces. They also wear blue gloves and boot covers. Photo by Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
ALT The complete 3.2GP focal plane of the LSST Camera. (Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
ALT Thumbnail graphic for the YouTube stream of First Look Images from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. A photograph of the observatory is centered on a colorful background of star trails.
ALT Nighttime panoramic view of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory on a mountain, with a starry sky above and distant city lights below. Credit: RubinObs/SLAC/NSF/DOE/NOIRLab/AURA/B. Quint
ALT Two scientific graphs related to particle physics. The left graph shows the discovery of a narrow resonance in electron-positron annihilation, featuring a plot with data points and a fitted curve. The right graph depicts the experimental observation of a heavy particle J, with histogram bars representing spectral data from different experimental runs.
ALT A white grid that represents the camera view of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory with the central nine squares showing a night sky image taken by the engineering test camera making up only a fraction of what the entire field of view will be. Image credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA
ALT An illustration depicts an unexpectedly strong attraction between electrons in neighboring lattice sites within a 1D chain of copper oxide, or cuprate – a material that conducts electrical current with no loss at relatively high temperatures in their 2D counterparts. In a recent study, Stanford and SLAC scientists used X-rays to examine the behavior of pairs of spinons – quasiparticles that represent an electron’s spin. This experiment provides further evidence of an unusually strong attractive force not captured by the Hubbard model, the leading theory for predicting electron behavior in solids. Authors say the model fails to explain electron dynamics in cuprates, even in simplified, one-dimensional systems. (SCI-HUA)
ALT U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright shakes the hand of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Director John Sarrao at a SLAC building entrance on his inaugural visit to the San Francisco Bay Area National Labs in May 2025. To the right stands Hanley Lee. Credit: SLAC/Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell
ALT Image description: Illustration depicting various molecular structures with a prominent sphere in the center, surrounded by smaller spheres, against a dark background. Lightning-like energy beams emit from the central sphere. Credit: RMT Bergues
ALT View of the LSST camera's cryostat, which serves as an optical bench – a silicon carbide grid that keeps the camera's focal plane flat to within just a tenth of the width of a human hair – and simultaneously cools the focal plane's 201 CCD sensors to -100 degrees Celsius (-150 degrees Fahrenheit). Credit: SLAC/Andy Freeberg
ALT LSST Camera Deputy Project Manager Travis Lange dressed in a white clean suit, shines a flashlight into the LSST Camera. Credit: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
ALT SLAC's LSST team, including Mike Silva seen behind the filter, carefully unpack, examine, test and store the r-band filter, the first of six optic filters that will be part of the completed LSST Camera. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
ALT Collage for the Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the November Revolution, featuring archival photos of various scientific teams and technical equipment.