First images unveiled from world’s largest camera, built in the Bay Area
Images from the world’s largest camera, built in the Bay Area, have just been released for the first time, providing a never-before-seen look into deep space.
A decade in the making at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, the $168 million, 6,600-pound camera with a lens five feet across was completed last spring. It was shipped in a secretive, intricately orchestrated mission to a ridge-top observatory in Chile, 8,900 feet above sea level.
SLAC’s camera project manager Travis Lange said last year the 3,200-megapixel camera would “revolutionize astronomy.”
The telescope inside the closed dome of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. (Photo courtesy of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
The telescope inside the dome of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. (Photo courtesy of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
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The telescope inside the closed dome of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. (Photo courtesy of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
The first images to be released that were captured by the world’s biggest camera, built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, and mounted on a telescope in Chile. This image shows another small section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s total view of the Virgo cluster. Visible are two prominent spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right), several groups of distant galaxies, many stars in the Milky Way galaxy and more. (Photo courtesy of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ever-changing views onto colliding and exploding stars and asteroids, and provide insights into interstellar mysteries including dark energy and dark matter.
Additional information and images from the camera are to be released Monday.
Check back on this developing story.
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