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World's largest digital astronomy camera ready to solve cosmic mysteries
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 installed on a telescope in Chile to help unravel some of the biggest mysteries in the universe.
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera module has reportedly been more than two decades in the making, but was only granted approval for construction by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) in 2015. And the optical system, including three aspheric mirrors and large quick-change filters, will be optimized to capture light at wavelengths running from ultraviolet to near-infrared (0.3-1 µm). "Its images are so detailed that it could resolve a golf ball from around 15 miles away, while covering a swath of the sky seven times wider than the full Moon," said Aaron Roodman, Deputy Director and Camera Project Lead at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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