How does 1300 Megapixels strike you? Yep, not a typo- although technically I'm thinking that's about 1.3 gigapixels, but let's not nit pick the scientists.
Speaking at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting at Queen’s, Dr. Kaiser explained how the first component of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is about to change our view of the Universe. By surveying the whole sky visible from the top of a dormant Hawaiian volcano, the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) telescope will discover a myriad of asteroids, comets and exploding stars. In the process it will create the largest and most detailed map of the heavens ever produced.
Read the whole story at Photonics Online.