On a good night, this camera will be able to map a swathe of sky approximately the size of the Plough's blade (or, for North Americans, the Big Dipper's bucket).

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When it's bolted onto the Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tolodo Observatory in Chile next month the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera will survey some 300 million galaxies in the southern sky, measuring the speed at which they are moving apart with phenomenal accuracy, and giving the best description yet of the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

BBC: Getting the measure of dark energy

Sky News, a British broadcaster, said Syrian officials confiscated a television camera after a crew filmed an impromptu protest in Damascus, the capital, on Tuesday.

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However, with the 2.6-meter VLT and 268-megapixel OmegaCAM camera, the observatory is able to capture huge swaths of sky at a time -- no need for stitching here.

ENGADGET: Visualized: Carina Nebula captured with a 268-megapixel camera

Additionally, the N9 suffers from the typically narrow dynamic range of smartphone camera sensors, which is the cause of the consistently blown-out sky in our gallery images.

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As he says this, the camera pans upwards to show an aircraft carving a line across the clear blue sky, a reference to both the double standards of Larson's patriotism and the secret that drives him on.

ECONOMIST: Sundance film festival

Those include in-game access to the All-22 "eye in the sky" video so you can do your own Madden-style telestration, and a fixed fan-chosen camera, sideline or cable skycam view for those that need to feel like they're playing a video game.

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