World’s largest digital camera weighs 3 tons and will take 7.88 million photos of the sky over 10 years; each is…
- The world's largest digital camera begins recording the changing universe every night
- Giant Chile observatory discovers thousands of hidden asteroids during early testing already
- A new sky survey captures fresh cosmic images every forty seconds overnight
A camera roughly the size of a small car has begun the most ambitious astronomical survey ever attempted from Earth.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, perched atop Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, officially started its Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
Every 40 seconds throughout the night, the 6,600-pound instrument captures a new image using its 3200-megapixel sensor, the largest digital camera ever built.
A decade-long cosmic recording begins
Over the coming decade, the camera will return to each patch of sky roughly 800 times, building a living record of celestial change.
Željko Ivezić, head of LSST, said the launch followed extensive system optimization and a careful review of technical readiness across multiple...
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