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The 570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Taken for a spin

Cool stuff. The Dark Energy Survey is a  scientific collaboration of  institutions from across the globe created to help us understand  what's causing the universe to expand. They're helped by the use of a brand new 570-megapixel camera that captured its first image last week. Calling this a camera is just silly.
It's  the camera together with the massive Victor M. Blanco telescope on which it's mounted  along with accessories.  Specifically, the Dark Energy Camera uses five different filters, each of which is the size of a car tire. Each of the filters is a different shade of blue, green or red, and there's an infrared one  to pick up   things that the human eye cannot. AWESOME.

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