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World's Largest Digital Camera to Capture 3,200-Megapixel Sky Images
The 3-ton camera, built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will take 7.88 million 8GB photos over 10 years, each at 3,200 megapixels. It will repeatedly scan the night sky to create a massive public archive of astronomical data. The project aims to catalog billions of celestial objects and phenomena.
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While impressive, the camera's real impact will depend on how the data is processed and shared with the scientific community.
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World’s largest digital camera weighs 3 tons and will take 7.88 million photos of the sky over 10 years; each is 8GB in size and has a 3200-megapixel resolution →
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