Image: Dark Energy Survey catches breathtaking glimpse of Comet Lovejoy

Friday, February 27, 2015 - 07:30 in Astronomy & Space

On December 27, 2014, while scanning the southern sky as part of the Dark Energy Survey, researchers snapped the above shot of comet Lovejoy. The image above was captured using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, the world's most powerful digital camera. Each of the rectangular shapes above represents one of the 62 individual fields of the camera.

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