Fermilab’s Dark Energy Camera captures images of comet Lovejoy.

By Sky Watch with Col Maybury
March 7 2015 - 4:00am
Up close and personal: The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile captured this photo of Comet Lovejoy on December. 27, 2014. Credit: Fermilab Dark Energy Camera.
Up close and personal: The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile captured this photo of Comet Lovejoy on December. 27, 2014. Credit: Fermilab Dark Energy Camera.

It seems an amusing coincidence that the world’s most powerful camera, the Fermilab’s Dark Energy Camera, could catch a picture of that little comet Lovejoy.

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