Fermilab Builds 500 Mega-Pixel Camera

Think your 6.5 mega-pixel camera is the hottest thing going? Guess again. Too bad you can't get 500 mega-pixels in a pocket sized camera. Why, you could photograph your entire town with that thing. Oh yeah, and a good chunk of the galaxy, but who's counting?

"Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy research lab, is part of a collaboration on an experiment to measure the properties of dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey would measure the history of the expansion rate of the universe more precisely than ever before, using the largest camera ever built with Charge Coupled Devices (CCD). The 500 megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) would be placed on an existing 4-meter telescope located in north-central Chile at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The DECam together with the CTIO 4-meter telescope will allow for a survey of 15 percent of the sky to light levels faint enough to measure the colors of galaxies at redshift one."

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