The further we advance our technology, the better we are able to understand the things in our universe. And that's why engineers and scientists have built the world's largest optical lens which will be used on the world's largest digital camera that would power the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Th[e] 3.2-gigapixel camera being built for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) was thought up over a decade ago. But after getting the green light in 2011, and securing funding in 2015, it was off to the races as engineers and scientists began to turn this idea into a functioning reality.
The camera features the largest CCD image sensor mosaic in the world, combining 189 individual sensors into a single 3.2-gigapixel imaging area that—once it’s operational and perched atop Cherro Pachon mountain in Chile—will snap a 15-second exposure of the night sky every 20 seconds or so.
-via Book of Joe
(Image credit: Farrin Abbott/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Flickr)