Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists built the largest digital camera ever, weighing 3 tons with a 5-foot lens, for astronomy. The LSST camera is designed ...

The SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory has announced the completion of the LSST Camera, which is capable of capturing 3,200-megapixel images, and will now be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The LSST Camera took two decades to build, and will embark on a 10-year-long cosmic imaging project. Following a two-decade ...

The biggest digital camera on Earth is finished — and it will soon revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos. The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California announced the ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...

The world’s most powerful digital camera has just delivered its first images, and they are nothing short of spectacular. The 3,200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, stationed at ...

The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile. The 3200-megapixel LSST ...

Scientists have completed the construction of the world’s biggest camera after two decades of work. The 3,200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera weighs 3 metric tons and features ...

On screensaver mode, smart TVs often rotate through photos of natural wonders, from waterfalls to canyons. Now imagine hundreds of those televisions, with one single image spread out among them. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. One of the world’s most new important telescopes—due to have ...

Scientists built the largest digital camera ever, weighing 3 tons with a 5-foot lens, for astronomy. The LSST camera is designed to take thousands of 3,200-megapixel images of the entire southern sky.