The Morning After: The world’s biggest digital photo is 3,200 megapixels

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The Morning After: The world’s biggest digital photo is 3,200 megapixels

 

Today, we’re covering the history of Blue Origin, reviewing Android 11 and more. But first: three-thousand-two-hundred megapixels. Taken with

 

sensors for the world's largest digital camera, it would comically take 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV screens to display one image in full size. The image

 

fidelity is apparently so high, you could see a golf ball 15 miles away.

 

The camera will live in Stanford University’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) telescope in Chile, where researchers will study dark energy, dark

 

matter and create the “largest astronomical movie of all time.” 

 

The sensor is actually 189 charge-coupled devices (CCDs), which each capture 16-megapixel images. So where is the image itself, you big tease? Well, it’s

 

still too early for that. These 3,200-megapixel images mean the world’s largest digital camera has passed its important first test. The team still has

 

challenges ahead to build the rest of the camera, but final testing should start mid-2021 — just think of the selfies. 

 

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