TL;DR: The world's largest digital camera, with a 3,200-megapixel sensor at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, has begun capturing ultra-high-resolution images, discovering over 2,100 new ...

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile has snapped its first ...

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The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area of the full moon in one shot. Over the next ten years, this cosmic giant ...

The world’s largest digital camera has revealed its first images. The size of a small car, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera weighs nearly 2,800 kilograms and boasts an extraordinary 3 ...

The dramatic first images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, powered by the world’s largest digital camera, were released to the public on Monday. The images show millions of galaxies and ...

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already detected interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and may detect up to 50 more during its 10-year mission, according to a new model. The observatory in Chile, which ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - How good is the digital camera on your phone? 12 megapixels? 20 megapixels? 32 megapixels? The world’s largest digital camera is 3200 megapixels! But instead of taking ...

View of the Virgo Cluster, featuring two spiral galaxies, three merging galaxies, and stars within the Milky Way (all photos via NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory unless noted otherwise) Millions of ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is an 18-story facility that will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 ...