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PiBoy314 t1_iu4geyn wrote

Reply to comment by musiquededemain in 3,200 Megapixels: The World’s Largest Camera will be Complete in 2023 by M416_Lover

The only way to get more resolution would be to make the camera lenses larger (or add more of them) just due to the wave nature of light.

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danielravennest t1_iu5i37l wrote

The Rubin telescope, like other telescopes, is a really big camera with a really big sensor. The sensor is made of smaller tiles, and the individual pixels are large to collect more light when looking at the sky.

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