Scientists have built the world’s largest digital camera for the study of space. The lens of the said camera is 3200 megapixels. The said camera named LSST will be kept at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the South American country of Chile.
This camera is expected to reveal the secrets of the universe. Scientists took 20 years to prepare this camera. It will be housed in the Simoni Survey Telescope at the Rubin Observatory. Scientists expect this camera to capture HD images of space. This camera will help in the study of dark matter, dark energy, galaxies and the solar system, and will capture spectacular images.
The US National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy have helped to make the camera. NSF NOIRLab has built the camera. The camera is about the size of a small car. The weight of the camera is 3000 kg.
The diameter of its front lens is 1.5 meters i.e. 5 feet. Similarly, the second lens is 3 feet wide. Both these lenses are set in a specially prepared vacuum chamber. This camera will be packed up to the telescope at an altitude of 8,980 feet.
The camera will be taken to Cerro Pechón in the Andes Mountains in Chile and attached to the Simoni Survey Telescope there. In other words, it will start taking pictures of space right away. According to University of Washington professor Jelko Ivezic, the camera will make new films of space, capture amazing pictures and videos.
The pictures captured by this camera will be so detailed that you will be able to take an HD picture of even a golf ball that is 25 kilometers away. It can take a picture of the full moon.
Discussion about this post