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Images of space transformed by CCD's

newscientist.com — This year's Nobel prize for physics was partly awarded to Willard Boyle and George Smith for inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), the sensor that acts as the retina of digital cameras. But long before it reached consumers, the technology was used in astronomy. Explore these images to see how CCDs showed us space as never before.

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  • groovystratman, on 10/29/2009, -1/+22The shot of the owl is FANTASTIC! They shot that from outer space?
  • MacBookForMe, on 10/29/2009, -0/+14Loved that pics of Saturn rings...simply the best
  • Stoyanov, on 10/29/2009, -0/+10"This is the first ever CCD image of Uranus, taken with a portable 400 x 400 CCD sensor in 1976."
  • PowderedToasty, on 10/30/2009, -0/+8It's a space owl.
  • Aero347, on 10/30/2009, -0/+4The last picture blows your mind.. that's just a fraction of the galaxies Hubble can spot.
  • whoreable, on 10/30/2009, -0/+2Clone Cd Image?
  • imquaid, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Saturn is so ***** cool.
  • dalectrics, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Spowl
  • bratterscain, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Inb4 the goatse'd pic of Uranus.
  • Paranor01, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1the comedy wrote itself on that one.
  • Suricou, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1And yet somehow, many people still believe that the whole universe was made just for the benefit of the inhabitants of one tiny and unremarkable little planet.
  • Speedy7, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Hoo Tee go home...
  • rpatrick819, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Nothing like sitting on your friend's deck, looking at Uranus.
  • xer0five, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1FUKA YOU OWR!
  • kmattso, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Didn't we send a probe to Uranus?
  • drlha, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Nice, but it completely misses out how CCDs have also revolutionised X-ray Astronomy. Lets compare some Einstein or ROSAT images with images from Chandra for example.
  • Karagoose, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Its amazing how much these images look like photoshop because of the one light source but thats how it really is in space.
  • Speedy7, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1I used a CCD in my Physics lab last week. We did laser diffraction of a black and white picture grating. The result looked a lot like the first picture on this article.

    Amazing stuff.
  • hondaman, on 10/30/2009, -1/+1BHO took physics in college. That should have been enough, right?

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