This 3,200-Megapixel Digital Camera, World's Largest, Sees Everything In Universe
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This heavyweight champion of astronomy weighs a whopping 3 tonnes and boasts the highest resolution ever achieved for a space camera.
Scientists are about to peer into the universe's greatest mysteries with a powerful new tool: the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera. This behemoth boasts a record-breaking 3,200 megapixels, designed to capture unprecedented detail of the cosmos and shed light on elusive dark matter and dark energy.
Funded by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science, the LSST camera represents a significant leap in astronomical technology. Dark matter, despite influencing galaxies' rotations and comprising most of the universe's mass, remains invisible to current instruments. Dark energy, another theoretical entity, is believed to be accelerating the universe's expansion.
The LSST camera will be housed in the Vera C Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in a remote region of Chile. This prime location offers an unobstructed view of the southern sky.