The world's largest digital camera

LSST's huge telescope is being designed and built by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US. It will provide the ability to capture and observe the night sky in the fastest, largest, deepest way ever before.

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According to the Daily Mail, achieving this is thanks to a 3.2-billion-pixel camera that helps to survey the sky weekly, creating an archive of about 6 million GB of data each year. This is equivalent to an 8 megapixel digital camera that captures 800,000 images per night, but the quality and value of science are certainly not comparable.

LSST telescope model

Extensive monitoring in the universe regularly helps answer important questions about energy and dark matter and studies of near-asteroids, objects within the Kuiper belt, structures our galaxy, basic physics knowledge and other areas of astronomy.

Nadine Kurita, the LSST camera project manager at SLAC, said that with 189 sensors and 3 tons of tightly packed other devices, it is a sophisticated and sophisticated scientific tool that provides excellent opportunities. to have a comprehensive view of the universe. According to Steve Kahn, deputy director of the LSST program, if the schedule is right, the telescope will go into operation in 2014. The current job is to install the main mirror of size 8.4m on top of Cerro Pachón north Chile.

Dark energy is considered a major component of cosmic energy but there are still many mysteries and this is the most important research object.

Reference: Daily Mail