{"id":666258,"date":"2020-09-08T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=666258"},"modified":"2020-09-08T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:51:11","slug":"california-scientists-build-a-camera-to-take-pictures-of-huge-swath-of-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=666258","title":{"rendered":"California Scientists Build A Camera To Take Pictures Of Huge Swath Of Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3.2-billion-pixel-broccoli_wide-eacb9bf8d42e9e11dc1a31f583d02b4fbf6cc755.png\" alt=\"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.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 of broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: LSST Camera team\/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\/Rubin Observatory)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/npr-rss-pixel-3.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/08\/910761101\/california-scientists-build-a-camera-to-take-pictures-of-huge-swath-of-sky?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Scientists Build A Camera To Take Pictures Of Huge Swath Of Sky<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666258","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666258\/revisions"}],"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=666258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}