{"id":294084,"date":"2017-03-29T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4c77e4bfbbac542746b4c70b2071b466"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:54:45","slug":"timepixcam-pulls-together-diverse-technologies-to-capture-ions-and-photons-for-biology-chemistry-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=294084","title":{"rendered":"TimepixCam pulls together diverse technologies to capture ions and photons for biology, chemistry and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Nomerotski joined the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory to build a three-gigapixel camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a massive instrument that will be installed in the mountains of Chile to capture the deepest and widest snapshots of the cosmos to date. The LSST is Nomerotski&#8217;s main focus, yet he manages to find time to run a side project at Brookhaven: developing an ultrafast camera, called TimepixCam, that can detect either single photons or ions for astrophysics experiments and even more down-to-earth studies in fields from biology to quantum computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Nomerotski joined the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory to build a three-gigapixel camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a massive instrument that will be installed in the mountains of Chile to capture t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294085,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294084\/revisions\/294085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}