Fermilab Builds 500-Megapixel Camera

heyitsme writes "Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy research lab, is part of a collaboration on an experiment to measure the properties of dark energy. The Dark Energy Survey would measure the history of the expansion rate of the universe more precisely than ever before, using the largest camera ever built with Charge Coupled Devices (CCD). The 500 megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) would be placed on an existing 4-meter telescope located in north-central Chile at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The DECam together with the CTIO 4-meter telescope will allow for a survey of 15 percent of the sky to light levels faint enough to measure the colors of galaxies at redshift one."

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Will we see many results?

[thegsusfreek]

I bet that you won't here very much about the results of the pictures they take. They would HATE to reveal any evidence that disproves the big-bang theory and evolution. ;D Though I guess they could probably find some way of twisting things around to try and support the big-bang. Like the idea of a "Red Shift" for which there are several other possible explanations. And the Hubble and the so-called "Hubble Constant" that changes all the time (should be called the "Hubble Variable").