{"id":186708,"date":"2024-04-03T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-worlds-largest-digital-camera-is-ready-to-investigate-the-dark-universe"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:23:52","slug":"the-worlds-largest-digital-camera-is-ready-to-investigate-the-dark-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-worlds-largest-digital-camera-is-ready-to-investigate-the-dark-universe","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest digital camera is ready to investigate the dark universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-digital-camera-is-ready-to-investigate-the-dark-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 3,200-megapixel <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/vera-rubin-observatory-record-breaking-first-photos.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/vera-rubin-observatory-record-breaking-first-photos.html\">LSST camera<\/a> is the size of a compact car and weighs in at 3 metric tons, which is about half the weight of a male African bush elephant. The LSST\u2019s wide-field view will attempt to solve lingering mysteries surrounding <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/dark-energy-what-is-it\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/dark-energy-what-is-it\">dark energy<\/a>, the force that accounts for around 70% of our universe\u2019s matter-energy content and causes the expansion of the cosmos to accelerate.<\/p>\n<p>The LSST will also investigate dark matter, the mysterious substance that accounts for around 85% of all stuff in the cosmos despite being invisible to us, as well as answer other astronomical questions as it creates what \u017deljko Ivezi\u0107, Director of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/vera-rubin-observatory-broad-views-universe\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/vera-rubin-observatory-broad-views-universe\">Rubin Observatory<\/a>\u2019s construction, describes as the \u201cgreatest movie of all time and the most informative map of the night sky ever assembled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3,200-megapixel LSST camera is the size of a compact car and weighs in at 3 metric tons, which is about half the weight of a male African bush elephant. The LSST\u2019s wide-field view will attempt to solve lingering mysteries surrounding dark energy, the force that accounts for around 70% of our universe\u2019s matter-energy content [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}