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World's Largest Digital Camera Reveals First Photos Next Week

Thefirstphotosfromthelargestdigitalcameraintheworldareabouttoberevealed.

世界上最大的數位相機拍攝的第一批照片即將曝光。

TheLegacySurveyofSpaceandTime (LSST) camerawasbuilttocaptureground-breakingphotosofspace.

太空與時間遺產巡天 (LSST) 相機的建造是為了捕捉具有突破性的太空照片。

Nextweek-on Monday, 23 June -someoftheseobservationswillberevealedtotheworldforthefirsttime.

下週，也就是 6 月 23 日星期一，其中一些觀察結果將首次向世人公佈。

AccordingtotheGuinnessBookofRecordstheLSSTisnotonlythelargestdigitalcamera, butalsotheonewiththehighestresolutionwhichmeansitcantakereallydetailedphotos.

根據金氏紀錄，LSST 不僅是最大的數位相機，也是解析度最高的數位相機，這意味著它可以拍攝非常詳細的照片。

Sometop-of-the-rangephoneshavecameraswitharesolutionofupto50megapixels, whereastheLSSThasaresolutionof 3,200 megapixels!

一些頂級手機的相機解析度高達 50 萬像素，而 LSST 的解析度高達 3,200 萬像素！

Butyoudefinitelycan'tcarrythiscameraaroundwithyou, it'saboutthesamesizeasasmallcarandweighsamassive 2,800kg.

但你絕對不能隨身攜帶這台相機，它的大小與一輛小型汽車差不多，重量高達 2,800 公斤。

InsteaditiskeptattheVeraCRubinObservatoryinChileattachedtoapowerfultelescope.

相反，它被保存在智利的維拉·C·魯賓天文台，並附設在一架強大的望遠鏡上。

Theimagesitwilltakearesolargethatitwouldtake400ultra-high-definitiontelevisionstodisplayoneofthematfullsize.

它所拍攝的影像非常大，需要 400 台超高清電視才能以全尺寸顯示其中一張。

Thecameraaimstocapture 1,000 imagesanightoverthenext10 yearsandtheproject'smissionistocatalogue20billiongalaxies.

該相機計劃在未來 10 年內每晚拍攝 1,000 張影像，該專案的任務是記錄 200 億個星系。

Thegoalistocaptureanultra-wideandultra-high-definitiontime-lapserecordofourUniverse.

目標是捕捉我們宇宙的超寬和超高清延時記錄。

TheUSNationalScienceFoundationandDepartmentofEnergysaytheimagescapturedwillhelpscientistsanswerquestionsaboutdarkmatter, thestructureoftheMilkyWayandtheformationofourSolarSystem.

美國國家科學基金會和能源部表示，拍攝到的影像將幫助科學家解答有關暗物質、銀河系結構和太陽系形成的問題。

"Noothertelescopehasbeenabletodetectbothreal-timechangesintheskyandfaintordistantobjectsatthesametimeonthisenormousscale."

“沒有其他望遠鏡能夠如此大規模地同時探測到天空的實時變化和暗淡或遙遠的物體。”

Thesecapabilitiesmeanthatexceedinglyrareeventsinthesky, neverdetectedbefore, willbecapturedforthefirsttime.

這些能力意味著以前從未探測到的極其罕見的天空事件將首次被捕捉到。

Thefirstspectacularimagesaretobeunveiledon23 Juneat11amintheUS, whichis4pmintheUK.

首批壯觀的圖像將於 6 月 23 日美國時間上午 11 點（英國時間下午 4 點）公佈。

The'FirstLook'eventissettobelive-streamedonYouTubeforanyastronomyenthusiasts.

「First Look」活動將在 YouTube 上向所有天文愛好者進行直播。

The first photos from the largest digital camera in the world are about to be revealed.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera was built to capture ground-breaking photos of space.

Next week - on Monday, 23 June - some of these observations will be revealed to the world for the first time.

According to the Guinness Book of Records the LSST is not only the largest digital camera, but also the one with the highest resolution which means it can take really detailed photos.

Some top-of-the-range phones have cameras with a resolution of up to 50 megapixels, whereas the LSST has a resolution of 3,200 megapixels!

But you definitely can't carry this camera around with you, it's about the same size as a small car and weighs a massive 2,800kg.

Instead it is kept at the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile attached to a powerful telescope.

The images it will take are so large that it would take 400 ultra-high-definition televisions to display one of them at full size.

The camera aims to capture 1,000 images a night over the next 10 years and the project's mission is to catalogue 20 billion galaxies.

The goal is to capture an ultra-wide and ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe.

The US National Science Foundation and Department of Energy say the images captured will help scientists answer questions about dark matter, the structure of the Milky Way and the formation of our Solar System.

"No other telescope has been able to detect both real-time changes in the sky and faint or distant objects at the same time on this enormous scale."

These capabilities mean that exceedingly rare events in the sky, never detected before, will be captured for the first time.

The first spectacular images are to be unveiled on 23 June at 11am in the US, which is 4pm in the UK.

The 'First Look' event is set to be live-streamed on YouTube for any astronomy enthusiasts.