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These digital camera CCDs (charge-coupled devices), totalling four chips with 16 segments each, will join 196 others inside the 3.2-gigapixel camera of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The false-color image shows the CCD chips illuminated by near infrared light, which is the wavelength range where the LSST will study distant galaxies in its quest to reveal the secrets of dark energy and dark matter. The patterns are interference fringes caused by small thickness variations in the silicon wafer from which they were fabricated, but these striking contours will not impact performance.