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The world’s largest digital camera for astron - EurekAlert
<p>The recently assembled LSST camera is now ready to make the trip from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory 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 “static” 3D map of the observable universe, and to monitor “transient” cosmic phenomena.</p>
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