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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100??C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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Astronomers have unveiled the world鈥檚 largest digital camera

The world鈥檚 largest digital camera for astronomy is taller than a car, has as many pixels as 266 iPhones and will, over the course of the next 10 years, help researchers study billions of galaxies

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Shutterstock will sell AI-generated art and ‘compensate’ human artists

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Slime mold (Lamproderma)

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Dazzling photographs reveal the world on a microscopic scale

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Tony Wu watches the electrifying reproductive dance of a giant sea star.
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Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 competition

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Dazzling photograph of pink-breasted galahs in Australian desert

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Striking photos show scale of development in sub-Saharan Africa

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A postprocessed version of a photo that has been made blurry by a signal injection attack

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Spoofing cyberattack can make cameras see things that aren鈥檛 there

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022

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Camera lenses on the back of a smartphone

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Wafer-thin cameras with long focal lengths are theoretically possible

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3D-printed lenses that can ignore certain objects in frame

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AI-created lenses let camera ignore some objects when taking pictures

Camera lenses that ignore certain objects and only capture images they have been designed to recognise can be built in just hours from clear plastic with a 3D printer

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Stretchy material could make bandages change colour when getting loose

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Stunning solar prominences shine in photography competition

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Like a child eating candyfloss: see a green turtle tuck into jellyfish

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Striking photos of jellyfish shed light on the enigmatic invertebrates

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