The Vela Supernova Remnant has been captured in glorious 1.3-gigapixel resolution by the Dark Energy Camera. This record-breaking photo is one of the most incredible and detailed ever captured of a stellar object., astronomers have made a 1.3-gigapixel image of the ghostly Vela Supernova Remnant. The beautiful, detailed, and colorful image is the largest DECam image ever at 35,786 by 35,881 pixels, putting even the highest-resolution medium-format interchangeable lens cameras to shame.
Built by the Department of Energy and mounted on the National Science Foundation’s Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, the new image is one of the largest ever captured of the Vela Supernova Remnant and the highest-resolution photo ever captured by the DECam.
By combining multiple exposures, as astronomers did to create the new 1.3-gigapixel image of Vela, it’s possible to capture a remarkable amount of detail. While these colors are technically “false” insofar as they were not recorded by the DECam, which, like other specialized astronomy cameras only records black and white images, the colors assigned to each wavelength correspond to the way human vision sees colors,
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