A camera the size of a car to look into the deepest space. SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy

Gabriella Bernardi

11 min readApr 3, 2024

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The camera will sit atop Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope high in the Andes of Chile. (Rubin Observatory/National Science Foundation/AURA)

Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other…

Gabriella Bernardi

Written by Gabriella Bernardi

Gabriella Bernardi is a science journalist and author based in Turin, Italy. Here her science blog https://astrocometal.blogspot.com/

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