California (USA), Sep 15
A megapixel is 1 million pixels. Pixels are small squares that are put together like pieces of a puzzle or mosaic to create your photographs.
More the information, the better. So, higher the megapixels, better the image clarity.
Scientists at Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in USA clicked the picture of a Broccoli using a 3200 megapixel image sensor.
This sensor will later be the core of the world’s largest camera being developed at the same lab.
The camera is being developed for the Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile. The complete focal plane of the future LSST Camera is more than 2 feet wide and contains 189 individual sensors that will produce 3,200-megapixel images.
The test images were taken this week. One of these was an image of the head of a broccoli.
Image Description: The focal plane of the camera.
Image Credit: Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
LSST stands for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope – it is the telescope for which this camera is being designed and made. This will allow us to get rich, high resolution images of bodies far away in the Universe.