Huge CCD Could Give Real-Time View of Dark Energy Hunt
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Huge CCD Could Give Real-Time View of Dark Energy Hunt

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The world's largest sky-survey telescope will deliver its 3,200-megapixel images of the universe to the public in near–real time. "We've designed the system so that we can process that data in a lot less than a minute and release the end result within one minute to the world," the LSST's director, Tony Tyson, told Wired.com. The LSST is a hotly anticipated telescope that could provide some answers to niggling little astrophysics questions such as, "What is this dark energy that composes 72 percent of the universe?" "Anyone with a computer will be able to fly through the universe, zooming past objects a hundred million times fainter than can be observed with the unaided eye," the telescope's website promises. Image: LSST See Also: WiSci 2.0: Alexis Madrigal's Twitter, Google Reader feed, and green tech history research site; Wired Science on Twitter and Facebook.

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