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 s...