A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating | WIRED

A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects.

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That’s when the telescope will begin collecting 20 terabytes of data every night for 10 years. With it, scientists will build a vast map of the sky as seen from the southern hemisphere, including 20 billion galaxies and 17 billion stars in the Milky Way