Scientists have unveiled the world\u2019s biggest digital camera, capturing the broadest-ever images of the universe.
\nAccording to media reports, photos from the Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, show the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is nearing completion.
\nThe 3,200-megapixel camera is powerful enough to spot a golf ball from 15 miles away. It is around the size of a small SUV, and its lens has a diameter of over five feet.
\nAfter completion, it will click digital images of the entire visible southern sky every few nights from the Rubin Observatory atop a mountain in Chile called Cerro Pachon.
\nIt will produce a broad, deep and fast survey of the night sky, cataloguing the most number of stars and galaxies ever observed.
\nThe mechanical components of the camera are now together, but the camera isn\u2019t fully complete yet.
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