Dark energy Peeping Toms rejoice, because Fermilab has designed the gadget to grab it: A $35 million, car-sized digital camera, with 74 CCD sensors in it. It shall take 570-megapixel images of the Universe.
The effecting sensor is one meter in diameter, covering a 2.2-degree area of view. The photos are so large that, even with an ultra-fast data recording system, each photo shall take 17 seconds to acquire.
The camera won't photograph the dark energy itself, however. It will just give with ultra-detailed shots of the cosmos—tracking 300 million galaxies across the course of five years
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