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The world’s largest digital camera for astron - EurekAlert


<p>The recently assembled LSST camera&nbsp;is now ready to make the trip from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory&nbsp;in Chile, where it will be installed in May 2024. The camera, which has a resolution of 3.2 billion pixels and is the largest ever built for astronomy, took nearly two decades to create and involved hundreds of scientists across the globe, including a number of CNRS teams. For the next ten years, the camera will observe the southern night-sky on a daily basis, taking 800 photographs per night, each covering a surface equivalent to 40 times that of the Moon. It has two objectives: to study and create a &ldquo;static&rdquo; 3D map of the observable universe, and to monitor &ldquo;transient&rdquo; cosmic phenomena.</p>

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