On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera ... several other telescopes for a number of reasons. ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

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Optical components of the telescope’s cameras can be seen in the foreground. — Photo courtesy of the National Science Foundation The telescope’s construction was completed in December 2021 ...

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The Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) observatory, Asia's largest imaging Cherenkov telescope ... high-energy particles that emit Cherenkov radiation. MACE’s mirrors and cameras ...

This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... Camera) took four images 10 hours apart, each using a different filter. In the main image, above, brightness indicates high ...

Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star ... fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter ...

The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and ... The place is known as the Clean Room, or sometimes the High Bay. It is 125 feet long, 100 feet wide, 90 feet high, with almost ...