When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The stunning view of the Coma galaxy cluster, taken by the Dark Energy Camera. The two large ...

The powerful camera built for the Dark Energy Survey has taken more than 1 million photos from its perch in Chile. Here are some of the best. From high atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes, the Dark ...

April 3 (UPI) --Scientists have big expectations for a really big space camera. The 3,200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera will reveal what so far has remained unseen and only exists ...

A new image from the Dark Energy Camera peels back the layers of a “galactic onion” whose shells extend 150,000 light-years across space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This cloudy, ominous structure is CG 4, a cometary globule nicknamed ‘God’s Hand’. CG 4 is one of many cometary globules present within the Milky Way, and how these objects get their distinct form is ...

When built, the MAGIS-100 atom interferometer will be the largest in the world. But it's still missing a key component: a detailed camera. Stanford University SHARE This story originally appeared on ...

Scientists built the largest digital camera ever, weighing 3 tons with a 5-foot lens, for astronomy. The LSST camera is designed to take thousands of 3,200-megapixel images of the entire southern sky.

One of the most powerful cameras in the world just photographed two distant galaxies entwined in what's been described as a "galactic ballet." Part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National ...

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, is celebrating 10 years as one of the ...

From high atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes, the Dark Energy Camera has snapped more than one million exposures of the southern sky. The images have captured around 2.5 billion astronomical objects ...