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Big Picture: 570-Megapixel, Intergalactic Camera

Posted January 13, 2010 8:47 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

You're looking at the heart of one of the biggest digital cameras ever conceived — 74 CCD sensors that will go into an enclosure the size of a Mini Cooper. The 570-megapixel shooter is being built at Fermilab by an international team of particle physicists and astronomers, who think it will help solve one of the great mysteries of the cosmos: What is dark energy?

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01/14/2010 12:14 AM

I winder how long it will be until I can by a cellphone with a 570-megapixel camera?
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01/14/2010 9:42 AM

"The [camera] is being built ... by an international team of particle physicists and astronomers ..."

Why not an international team of camera builders?

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