06-04-2024 11:30 via mashable.com

You've got to see the biggest digital camera on Earth. It's car-sized.

The biggest digital camera on Earth is finished — and it will soon revolutionize our grasp of the cosmos. The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California announced the completion of its LSST Camera, short for "Legacy Survey of Space and Time." The giant-lensed instrument is the size of a car, the lab said, and in 2025 it will begin snapping deep space images at the much-anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory located in the lofty Chilean mountains. You can
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