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After 20 Years, the Construction of Astronomy’s Largest Digital Camera Has Finally Been Completed


Once installed on a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help scientists better understand dark matter, dark energy, and other mysteries of our universe. After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and th

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