On 23 June, the first set of images taken by the world’s largest digital camera were released. The camera is part of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, South America. An observatory is a building designed to examine objects in the sky, such as stars.
The images, which were taken over 10 hours, show millions of galaxies and stars, and more than 2,000 asteroids (rocky objects that orbit the Sun). The images are part of the observatory’s project to photograph the night sky over 10 years.
The camera that is being used is roughly the size of a small car, and it weighs 2,800 kilograms. Each image taken by the camera will contain 3,200 megapixels. One megapixel is one million pixels, which are the tiny squares of colour that…