Tag: Cerro Tololo

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  World’s largest camera to survey 300 galaxies from an observatory in north Chile

  

  “The camera that we built is really very similar to the digital cameras you can buy at Walmart or wherever” Brenna Flaughter told US National Public Radio. “But this camera is big — its guts fill a shiny cylinder that's about the size of a car engine”.