Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 1.5-meter-wide lens to discover dangerous asteroids that NASA can’t see
Travis Lange, LSST’s deputy project manager, shined a flashlight at the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientists have produced the largest digital camera ever for astronomy, weighing 3 tons and with a 1.5-meter lens. The LSST camera is designed to capture thousands of 3,200-megapixel images of the entire… Read More »