570 megapixel camera can see 7 billion years into past
(NEWSER) - So you think the 5.0 megapixel camera on your iPhone is pretty cool? Try 570 megapixels. That's the resolution on a new Dark Energy Camera being built by Fermilab just outside of Chicago, reports NPR . Comprised of 74 lenses up to three feet across, the Dark Energy Camera weighs about a ton and will be installed later this year on the Blanco telescope, high in the mountains of Chile. "With this camera we'll be able to go back about 6, 7 billion years, so about three-quarters to half-way back to the Big Bang," says Brenna Flaugher, one of the physicists working on the camera. More»
