On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...

Technicians are putting the final touches on the world's largest digital camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile and installed on a telescope in the Andes.

The world’s biggest digital camera is finally coming into focus. While a very powerful personal camera might have megapixel resolution, astronomers have constructed a device that will image the ...

Can anyone recommend a good affordable USB camera for use on a telescope? My main requirement is for the camera to support UVC, since I don't want to find myself with a driver-less device in two years ...

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If you've ever pointed your smartphone's camera skyward on a full moon, chances are you were pretty disappointed with the result. French smart telescope maker Vaonis is aiming to get you closer to the ...

A problem that arose in NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope over the weekend means that many of the orbiting telescope’s key capabilities may be permanently lost, officials announced Monday. The observatory ...

Astronomers develop a cheap technique to improve ground-based telescope resolution to rival space-based telescopes. Images: Taking the blur out of heavenly pictures Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

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Update, 15 January: NASA says that it has fixed the issues affecting Hubble's camera. One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s main instruments stopped working on 8 January because of an unspecified ...