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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
@SLAClab
Official account of the U.S. Department of @ENERGY's Silicon Valley national lab, operated by @Stanford. Verify: stanford.io/3P2sIAy
Menlo Park, CA
slac.stanford.edu
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Jun 16
    SLAC data 🤝 Genesis 2 of the biggest scientific data sets on the planet are coming to SLAC. Produced by our powerful X-ray laser and @VRubinObs at speeds & volumes that humans cannot process, fueling the @ENERGY #GenesisMission, & furthering discovery: stanford.io/44bVYuO
    Aerial view of a SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, with multiple buildings surrounded by trees at sunset. The landscape is bathed in a warm golden glow. On the left side, there is a geometric pattern overlay. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC
    The image shows the Rubin Observatory under a star-filled night sky. Text indicates that the observatory will send 10 terabytes of data every night, and over ten years will contribute more to optical astronomical surveys than any other.
    Aerial view of the Linac Coherent Light Source facility surrounded by greenery. Text reads: "Up to 40 terabytes of data per second are generated by X-ray pulses from our Linac Coherent Light Source."
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Dec 12, 2019
    Thanks for the egg bites rat king!
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    Dec 12, 2019
    accidentally mobile ordered ahead a coffee to a private stRbucks at a particle accelerator laboratory so congrats to the physicist who will eat my egg bites this am
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Oct 7, 2020
    Scientists saw how a molecular Ferris wheel delivers protons to cellular factories at the @Stanford-SLAC cryoEM center. No human cell can function without these tiny machines, which cause disease when they go haywire and offer potential targets for drugs. stanford.io/3jG2DVo
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Jul 29, 2020
    Don't keep all your eggs in one basket. Unless that basket is an unused bike helmet on a quiet campus during a global pandemic. Just be prepared for a bad case of helmet hair.
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Jan 22, 2019
    Paleontologists have discovered the first detailed #fossil - 100 million years old - of a #hagfish, using X-rays at @SLAClab's synchrotron @SSRLnews @UChicago @PNASNews @DrPhilManning pnas.org/content/early/…
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Aug 26, 2020
    Today the White House announced the creation of 5 new Quantum Information Science Research Centers led by @ENERGY labs across the country. SLAC and @Stanford will partner on Q-NEXT, led by @argonne, to tackle next-generation quantum science challenges. stanford.io/31sV0Ll
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Apr 3, 2024
    💫 The world's largest digital camera for astronomy is complete. Once in place atop a telescope in Chile, the #LSST Camera will gather an unprecedented amount of data about our universe, yielding new insight into everything from asteroids to dark energy:
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    SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy | SLAC National...
    Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of our universe.
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Mar 17, 2014
    In 1978 Alan Guth, then a @SLAClab postdoc, wrote this notebook page. His eureka moment confirmed today by #BICEP2.
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Sep 23, 2020
    Particle accelerators help shed light on nature’s subatomic components, film atoms and molecules during chemical reactions and create medical devices to treat cancer. Now, a SLAC team has invented a structure that could make accelerators 10 times smaller. stanford.io/2EraR4g
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Sep 12, 2019
    The largest high-performance optical lens ever fabricated (5.1 feet in diameter) has arrived. We'll soon integrate it into the 3,200-megapixel digital camera of @LSST. Photos of the lens delivery: flic.kr/s/aHsmGUbAt8 @Livermore_Lab
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Sep 1, 2022
    research
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Jun 23, 2025
    The Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae 😍 The human eye cannot catch all the details in this image. But @VRubinObs can. #CaptureTheCosmos in full resolution: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-fir…
    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.
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    May 18, 2017
    #tbt 1987 Our historic 2-mile-long linac was runner up in @mercnews “Ugly Building Contest” for being “too long”
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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    Apr 22, 2019
    The first direct look at how atoms move when a ring-shaped molecule breaks apart could boost our understanding of fundamental processes of life #visionaryscience @pulse_institute @NatureChemistry @Stanford www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2019-04-1…
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