Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are building the world's largest digital camera for astronomy and astrophysics - a minivan-sized 3,200-megapixel 'eye' of ...

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. Scientists built the largest digital camera ever, weighing 3 tons with a 5-foot lens, for astronomy. The LSST camera is designed ...

Next year the LSST Camera will start a decade-long project to map the entire sky, and help answer some of the universe's biggest questions. Andy Altman covered all things science and tech. He led ...

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 ...

ComCam will help test the observatory once it is installed in Chile later this year. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are building the world’s largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project (LSST), a 3-billion pixel camera/telescope to perch atop the Cerro Pachón mountain peak in Chile, has received "Critical Decision 1" (CD-1) approval by the ...

Building the world's largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera, is no simple task—that much is obvious. The camera features ...

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.