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TIL The LSST Camera has a (3,200 megapixel/3.2 gigapixel) sensor that can take images with high enough resolution to see a golf ball from (24 kilometers/15 miles) away; the images are so large that it would take 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV screens to display one of them in full size.

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