570 Megapixel Camera to Capture Dark Energy

I love stuff like this )

Say cheese?

perhaps the real question is:

are we as a people ready to know as much as we will be able to learn so very soon?

Is there a specific wavelength the camera's sensors will be tuned to in order to "see" dark matter? If dark matter is all around us, could they not see it here on Earth in a pitch black room or in a vacuum as well? Hope all goes well though.

I meant dark energy, sorry.

I wonder how long it'll take for consumer cameras reach that

I do to, but at some point it's pretty frivolous.

I believe dark matter or energy would suffice.

The terms are largely interchangeable, as either could explain hyperinflation and neither has ever been detected.

will this help us get warp drive? if not, waste of money.

Compared to the cost of the Hubble, 35 million seems like a steal for a better piece of equipment.

Does the term "dark energy" refer to what physicists call "Ether"? It's been a while since I've read The Universe In a Nutshell.

So can it take normal images too? What if it gets up there and they're like uhh there's nothing to take pictures of cause we were wrong about the whole dark energy/matter thing...

Apple have already detected and mastered hyperinflation.

that's gonna be one massive file.

Taking bets as to how long until phones have 570 megapixel cameras

Heard they were making a camera that could see stupidity and forecast major fails.. this looks like a good place to test their new camera.. So the earth is "billions" of years old? lol... Kinda like how Al Gore thinks the center of the earth is "couple million degrees"... The only dark energy they'll find is the S**T I flush down the toilet.. What a waste of money..

570 megapixels is meant to take huge pictures as in light years apart.

570 megapixels will not benefit 14 year old girls

They'll just blame it on Bush.. If that fails they'll use the race card..

ok guys, I have a couple of videos for you to check out...

The universe is understood currently to be made up of:

0.4% Stars etc
3.6% Intergalactic Gas
22% Dark Matter
74% Dark Energy

1st Vid you may have already seen, but here to give perspective to the next video about the Dark Matter:

Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux) (Most up to date version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg [...] re=channel

2nd vid showing clear evidence of Dark Matter:

Improved Hubble Shows Evidence of Dark Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wluv08tDhU


Thanks must go out to the creater of these great videos - Tony Darnell

The only thing that you can see and photograph with this are very old objects in space, and understanding their evolution could prove/disprove the dark matter theory. It is not like they will be taking pictures of the dark matter itself... just as you can not take pictures of a black hole. There is matter between galaxies, but it is only interstellar matter, which is completely different from dark matter.
To those eager to play this thing down, try to read up a little on things beforehand.

Space, The Final Frontier

when they finish making it they should test it out by by making a portrait lens for it and take some nice 570 megapixel images cat pictures, caturday will never be the same

I can't wait for science to change as we know it.

And with that, I agree.

I thought Fermilab was on the verge of shutting down due to insufficient funding.

Looking at the picture, the viewport must be one expensive piece of optics. It's a vacuum chamber as is visible by the UHV gate valve and turbo pump. The turbo pump is typically on a 6" flange, and therefore that appears to be a roughly 24" diameter viewport. That's a hell of a vacuum load. 14.7psia x Pi/4*(24^2) = about 3.3 tons of load. That's a lot of optical distortion that may occur if the glass is not made right.

Please tell me what's the trick? 570 Megapixels sounds unbelievably low to me for a camera that's supposed to take pictures of that kind. One can easily buy a dslr 12 Megapixels camera for $599 nowadays. This "amazing" camera has the resolution of roughly 50 normal cameras? To get approximately the same picture quality as a normal digital camera, this camera should take pictures of an area not bigger than 50 times what we normally take pictures of. I don't know the focal length of the lens and I don't know how far in the universe this camera will take pictures, but something is telling me this camera will be very very underpowered.

They're actually two different concepts.

Dark Energy is the unknown force that seems to propell all galaxies outward, away from each other. After the big bang, gravity should have started slowing down all the galaxies (although it would obviously take gazillions of years), eventually causing all matter in the universe to reverse direction and come together again. Recent evidence shows that galaxies are actually speeding up, not slowing down. The unknown force in called dark energy.

Dark matter on the other hand, is related to theory of gravity. From what we know, any given normal matter has about 6 times more gravity than it should. So where's all the extra "weight" coming from? We don't know. So it's hypothesized that there's more matter, but it doesn't interact with normal matter. This is what's known as dark matter.

I can so see some religious whackjobs protesting this to keep their concept of god plausible...hopefully no more blood requested from 'gods'

It is my understanding the camera will capture light from far away galaxies revealing more normal matter for us to examine and use in studies of Dark Matter. As Dark Matter is invisible light of all viewing spectrum pass through it, therefore no camera will ever capture a picture of dark matter.