Mind-Blowing 3,200 MP COSMIC Camera 😱📸 Seeing BILLIONS of Galaxies Like Never Before!
- MediaFx
- Jun 18
- 2 min read
TL;DRThis super‑massive LSST camera (3 000 kg, car‑size) at Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory is now ready to rock the cosmos! 😎 It boasts an insane 3 200‑megapixel sensor (equivalent to 260 smartphones) and cold -100 °C cooling. With six filters, it will shoot the entire southern sky every few nights for 10 years—creating the ultimate cosmic timelapse and mapping billions of stars, galaxies, asteroids, plus hunting dark matter and energy mysteries. #ScienceRevolution #CosmicJustice
🚀 What’s So Crazy About It?
Beast mode specs: Weighs ~3 tonnes—yes, like a small car—and houses a 5‑foot-wide lens with a mind‑blowing 3 200‑MP sensor (260 smartphone cams-worth!).
Freezing sharp: Sensor cooled to –100 °C to prevent image fuzz 🧊 .
Multi‑filter magic: Switches between six colour filters (u, g, r, i, z, y) in under 2 mins 📷 for UV to near‑IR coverage.
Big data galore: Will gather ~15 TB of data every single night, mapping 17 B stars, 20 B galaxies, millions of asteroids—over 60 petabytes in a decade!.
Resolution champ: Can spot a golf ball from 15 miles away, capturing sky swaths 7× the Moon’s width in 15‑sec exposures.
🔧 How It Came to Life
Designed & built at SLAC (USA) with 189 CCD sensors arranged in 21 rafts, forming a giga‑pixel focal plane—one of the largest and flattest ever built.
Two decades of work: teamwork from SLAC, Brookhaven, LLNL, NSF, DOE, AURA, CNRS, IN2P3 and many more global collaborators.
Transported to Chile in 2024 via cargo 747 and installed atop the 8.4 m Simonyi Telescope by early 2025.
Final testing done—setup is READY for “first light” debut around June 23, 2025 .
🌌 Why It Matters for Working Folks & the World
Cosmic justice: Revealing secrets of dark matter & dark energy—we need this knowledge to push back against ignorance and inequality. #DarkMatter #DarkEnergy
Big‑team unity: A global socialist‑style science effort showing how cooperation beats competition. #TeamScience
Public data = public power: Everyone, including students and underclass communities, can access the treasure trove of cosmic data. Leveling the cosmic playing field. #OpenScience
🗣️ MediaFx Opinion
From a socialist‑Marxist lens, this is true PEOPLE’s science—publicly funded, open‑source, and globally collaborative. It flips the script against corporate monopoly on knowledge. We’re not just calling shots in the stars—we’re calling for peace, equality, and scientific solidarity for ALL. Let’s ensure that this cosmic marvel empowers rural & working‑class youth from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh, fueling dreams beyond territorial boundaries. Science for the prole, by the prole! ✊
Kam chalu cheppaandi in the comments! What universe secrets are you excited to explore? 👇
