LSST
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (formerly Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) also makes use of the clear skies of Chile’s Atacama desert. This telescope features the largest digital camera ever built, a 3.2-billion-pixel behemoth that will collect 15 terabytes of data on the brightness, location, shapes, and colors of objects in the night sky every night. The idea is to image a huge swath of the sky with such frequency that astronomers will effectively have a stop-motion movie of the observable universe, in unprecedented resolution. While other telescopes focus on specific objects in the sky, LSST will capture it all—giving a spatial context to the work of all other telescopes.
