The largest camera built for astronomy is now on top of Cerro Pachón Mountain in Chile. The camera is part of a huge 8.4-meter-wide telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
LA SERENA (AFP) – Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue sky of northern Chile, astronomers from the Vera C Rubin Observatory hope to revolutionise the study of the universe by affixing the world’s largest-ever digital camera to a telescope. The size of a small car and weighing 2.8 metric tonnes, the sophisticated piece […]
Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue sky of northern Chile, astronomers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory hope to revolutionize the study of the universe by affixing the world's largest-ever digital camera to a telescope.
Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue sky of northern Chile, astronomers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory hope to revolutionize the study of the universe by affixing the world's largest-ever digital camera to a telescope.- Astronomy capital of the world -
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named in honor of the US astronomer who discovered dark matter, will join several other space observation research centers in northern Chile.
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