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Lights, camera, action! 🎬 The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing! 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-came…

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory funded by U.S. National Science Foundation & @energy, has achieved a major milestone with the installation of the LSST Camera, the largest digital camera ever built, on the massive telescope. 🔭 bit.ly/41GDYHn 📸: NSF-DOE NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory /B. Quint

Leaders in science & the arts gathered at a AAA&S reception to celebrate scientific discovery! Kavli President Cynthia Friend joined #KavliPrize and Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne, KIPAC Director Risa Wechsler & Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez-honored with the Rumford Prize. #KavliAstro

We ❤️ Romanesco So much that we took a 3,200-megapixel image of its detailed surface with the imaging sensor array of the world’s largest digital camera! The same camera is now installed and gearing up to #CaptureTheCosmos. 📷 Photo in full resolution: stanford.io/4hFjFjt

A condor flew over the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory, getting a bird’s eye view from above Rubin's site on Cerro Pachón. Soon, the observatory will have a spectacular view of its own as it aims the world’s largest digital camera up at the sky to #CaptureTheCosmos. #WildlifeWednesday 🦅

Noches Astronómicas, our Spanish outreach program, is having an event this evening Andrew Hill HS in San José! Si quieres aprender sobre los asteroides, los guardianes de nuestra sistema solar, o el observatorio Rubin, te esperamos en Noches Astronómicas bit.ly/noches-3abril

Join us for our biggest event of the year, KIPAC (+ friends) Community Day, on Saturday April 19th from 1-5pm! Come enjoy 30+ hands-on STEM activities, demos & mini-lectures. Register here: bit.ly/community-day-… for a chance to win a meteorite!

Live science demonstrations, talks, Van der Graaff generators and meteorites! ☄️ Don’t miss the upcoming KIPAC & Friends Community Day at Stanford University on April 19! Register here: bit.ly/3EbKWwy

Eye to the sky…on-sky engineering tests have begun at U.S. National Science Foundation–DOE Office of Science Rubin Observatory with the world’s largest camera! After installing & testing the LSST Camera, we turned the telescope to the sky—a moment 20 years in the making! Rubin #CommissioningNotes are back! ✍️ 🧵

The NSF-DOE Office of Science Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun on-sky engineering tests! Soon, this groundbreaking facility will capture more data than all other telescopes combined, revealing millions of asteroids, billions of stars and galaxies and the unknown. #CaptureTheCosmos

Thousands of people joined us for our KIPAC + Friends Community Day this past weekend, checking out dozens of activity booths and talks hosted by KIPAC and our partners! Sign up for our mailing list to hear about future events: bit.ly/KIPAC_outreach

At the frontier of discovery—inside our own galaxy. Members of the Via Project gathered at Yale. We are proud to support this groundbreaking effort to unlock new insights into #darkmatter, cold gas, and the structure of our galaxy. 🌌#KavliAstro via-project.org

We’re creating a massive, 3200-megapixel group photo…and it won’t be complete without YOU! NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera — the largest camera in the world — began on-sky engineering tests this month. So let’s celebrate! Join by May 14: rubinobservatory.org/explore/activi…

🎉Big congrats to all the newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, especially from our #KavliInstitutes: Julia R Greer Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech, Risa Wechsler KIPAC, Michael Crommie Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI), Eddie Chang Kavli UCSF and Steven Kahn KIPAC. Well deserved!👏

Congratulations to Risa Wechsler on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

How can AI team up with human researchers to help us understand the universe? Join us for today’s entry in the AI & Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series, featuring Ioana Ciucă (ioana ciucă), Research Scientist at KIPAC! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ioana-c…

🚨 Registration is open for Data-Driven Discovery in the Rubin Observatory Era June 5–6 by Stanford University KIPAC AI/ML, cosmology, and LSST collide at this interdisciplinary, discussion-focused conference. Free to attend! datascience.stanford.edu/events/center-…🔗

🚨 SAVE THE DATE: The world's First Look at imagery from U.S. National Science Foundation–@DOE Rubin Observatory is coming June 23, 2025! Get ready for the first frames of Rubin's ten-year time-lapse view of the cosmos🌌 #CaptureTheCosmos More details soon—stay up to date at rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-fir…

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright Exploring the origins of our universe at @KIPAC! Secretary Chris Wright is seeing SLAC and @DOEScience’s role in #CapturingTheCosmos. The lab built the world’s largest digital camera for the NSF-DOE NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory and will jointly operate its 10-year astronomical survey of the sky.

Thinking about how far NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has come 😌 💭 As First Look approaches on June 23, 2025 we’re looking back at the hard work and progress that have gone into this project. Exciting times ahead for Rubin! 📸 RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA