The cosmos is about to get a close-up of appropriately epic proportions.
Resting on a Chilean mountaintop, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially started the landmark Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a 10-year effort to create the most detailed and comprehensive record of the universe’s history.
After nearly 20 years of work, the LSST will use the world’s largest digital camera strapped to the largest survey telescope on the planet to change humanity’s understanding of the cosmos. The LSST brings together thousands of scientists from around the world who will use the images captured at the Rubin Observatory to map potentially billions of galaxies, find asteroids, analyze the solar system and study the secrets behind dark matter, the nearly invisible matter that makes up 80% of the universe.
“Today, we begin filming the greatest cosmic movie ever made,” Brian Stone, acting director of the National Science Foundation, said in a statement.
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