Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 04:30
in Astronomy & Space
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting “billion-pixel array” will serve as the super-sensitive ‘eye’ of ESA’s Galaxy-mapping Gaia mission.
