SPACE IMAGES FROM WORLD'S BIGGEST DIGITAL CAMERA

We turn now to an unprecedented view of space. A team at an astronomical observatory in Chile has released images from the world's biggest digital camera. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has a telescope with an aperture of 8.4 meters. It also has a 3.2-gigapixel camera Guinness World Records recognizes as the biggest in the world. The field of view is wide enough for an area of sky equivalent to 45 full moons in a single exposure. This composite photo shows galaxies thousands of light years in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation. It clearly shows gases and dust, which are the materials that form stars. And this composite was shot in the direction of Virgo. It includes around 10 million galaxies. The team plans to photograph the whole of the sky over the southern hemisphere during the coming 10 years.