World's largest camera: 3.1 gigapixels for epic timelapse panos of the universe

We have a winner for sensor Top Trumps: the LSST camera is the world's largest astronomy camera. It's more than 350 times the size of a full-frame sensor, for reference. Photo: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory "Space," according to Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "is big. Really Big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Recent Videos It turns out the same is true of cameras made to map space. You may think your full-frame camera is big but that's nothing...