* Astronomy

Researchers at the European Southern Observatory, in collaboration with three French laboratories and UK-based e2v Technologies, claimed they have developed an ultra fast camera that can take 1,500 finely exposed images per second.
The team, consisting of researchers from the Astrophysics Laboratory of Marseille, the Astrophysics Laboratory of Grenoble and the Haute-Provence Observatory in France, said the ultra fast astronomical camera, dubbed OCam, will be used in the next generation of adaptive optics instruments of the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), in particular for the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument.

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