In a happy accident, Comet Lovejoy just happened to be in the field of view of the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, the world’s most powerful digital camera.

Comet Lovejoy happened to fly in front of all this optical firepower on Dec. 27, 2014, as DECam was gathering data for the Dark Energy Survey. At the time, Earth was almost twice as close to the ...

Comet Lovejoy was accidentally imaged by a 570 megapixel camera designed to record dark energy. The composite photo, never meant to be recorded, may be the best image yet taken of the comet.

In a happy accident, Comet Lovejoy just happened to be in the field of view of the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, the world's most powerful digital camera. One member of the observing team said ...

On December 27, 2014, while scanning the southern sky as part of the Dark Energy Survey, researchers snapped a shot of comet Lovejoy. The image was captured using the 570-megapixel Dark Energy ...