"World's Largest Digital Camera Ready to Capture Southern Night Sky"

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Source: Astronomy Magazine
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The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, the largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, has been completed and is set to be mounted on the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. With 3,200 megapixels and a field of view seven times wider than the full Moon, it is expected to provide new insights into dark energy, dark matter, the Milky Way, and more over its 10-year survey of the sky.

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