Mapping the universe: 3.2 GigaPixel camera for a 10-year timelapse of the universe!

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Built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the LSST Camera is the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. The camera is at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will capture the entire southern sky every 3 nights. Data from the camera will help address some of the most pressing questions in cosmology, such as the nature of dark energy and dark matter, as well as advancing the study of our solar system and the changing night sky.

Video is produced by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where the LSST camera is being built.

Written, edited and produced by Olivier Bonin.

0:00 HISTORY: 30 years ago scientists were looking for a new way to explore dark matter
1:23 SLAC: Steve Kahn introduces a new telescope idea to SLAC National Laboratory
2:23 LSST Camera: The centerpiece would be a 3.2 gigapixel camera
3:08 A 10-YEAR movie of the universe
4:18 A multi-lab collaboration
4:41 LSST camera is ready to ship to Chile
5:04 CONCLUSION
5:31 CREDITS: Inspired by Vera Rubin, an amazing discovery on dark matter.

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