California Scientists Build A Camera To Take Pictures Of Huge Swath Of Sky

Romanesco broccoli, as seen by a 3.2 billion pixel camera. Scientists chose to take a picture of the broccoli because of its fractal shape.

Scientists and engineers in California are building a unique 3.2 billion pixel camera for a telescope under construction in Chile. The camera has taken its first test pictures — of broccoli.

(Image credit: LSST Camera team/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Rubin Observatory)




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Source: NPR Space News