Scientists and engineers at SLAC have officially finished the LSST camera, the largest digital camera ever created for Rubin's groundbreaking 10-year survey.

The 3,200-megapixel LSST camera is the size of a compact automobile and weighs 3 metric tonnes, roughly half the weight of a male African bush elephant. The LSST's wide-field vision will aim to solve long-standing questions about dark energy, the force that accounts for approximately 70% of our universe's matter-energy content and accelerates cosmic expansion.

The LSST will investigate dark matter, which makes up 85% of the universe but is invisible to us. It will also answer other astronomical questions as it creates what Željko Ivezić, Director of Rubin Observatory's construction, describes as the "greatest movie of all time and the most informative map of the night sky ever assembled."