World’s most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time.