Up Close With the Completed 3.2-Gigapixel #LSST #Camera

Engineers at the #SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of #Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest digital camera and will be the centerpiece of a 10-year mission to map the night sky from the Vera C. Rubin #Observatory in #Chile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FtSJ6D4

Up Close With the Completed 3.2-Gigapixel LSST Camera

Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest di...

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I miss working at Paranal Observatory: the lovely sunsets, the clear sky, riding sandworms...

https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2416a/

📷 S. Lowery/ESO

#astrodon #astronomy #chile #dune #sunset

The Return of the Ancient Voices by Pablo Ernesto Piovano

23 July, 2019
Millaray Huichalaf, a machi (ancestral authority, spiritual guide, and medicine woman) for some 150 Mapuche Williche communities, in Los Ríos, Chile, leads resistance against Statkraft, a Norwegian state-owned company that is building a hydroelectric dam on the Pilmaiquén River.

@photography
#WorldPressPhoto
#Chile
#indigenous
#Mapuche
#resistance
#women
#machi
#Statkraft