"Stanford Scientists Build World's Largest Digital Camera for Dark Universe Investigation"

Scientists and engineers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed the world's largest digital camera, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, after two decades of work. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200-megapixel sensor. Once installed atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, it will survey the southern night sky for a decade, generating a trove of data to better understand dark energy, dark matter, the Milky Way, and small objects in our solar system.