Anthony Wesley, an amateur astronomer from Australia, has combined an industrial camera with image sensors to capture high-resolution pictures of earth’s neighboring planets, including Venus, Mars, ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

The world's largest digital camera is nearly complete. Scientists expect exciting discoveries once the 3.2 billion-pixel camera is paired with its telescope. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca ...

A view of the LSST camera in its clean room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. A revolutionary telescope will come ...

Go behind the scenes as NOVA visits the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, where scientists fire up the world's largest digital camera for the first time. Equipped with an 8.4-meter mirror and a ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block — or, more precisely, on top of a mountain in Chile. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by American ...

Selecting the perfect camera and pixel size can make all the difference in your astrophotography. In this video, we guide you through how to match your camera’s sensor to your telescope’s focal length ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is marking a special occasion today, March 7, 2022, with the 20th anniversary of the installation of one of its most important instruments, the Advanced Camera for Surveys ...

A prolific NASA space telescope has closed its camera eye for now due to a power issue that has stalled the observatory's science work. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has studied the X-ray ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.