The LSST or Large Synoptic Survey or Survey Telescope, a telescope under construction in northern Chile capable of examining the entire visible sky, will come into operation in 2022 and will be equipped with the world's largest digital camera: a scanning device. 3.2 gigapixels , as just approved by the government of the US President, Barack Obama.
The new eye of the LSST will be mounted at the National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) and among the tasks of the new telescope will be to make a map of the Milky Way, measure gravitational lenses in space to detect dark matter and dark energy and offer us details without precedents of the universe that will help solve some of its mysteries .
This camera with great capabilities is the size of a small car and weighs more than three tons and will give us access to images of the full sky in such high resolution taken from the top of Cerro Pachón in Chile. His walks through the night sky will allow us to detect and catalog tens of billions of objects in the universe , that is, the telescope will observe more galaxies than humans live on Earth.
The high-resolution images produced by the LSST eye would require 1,500 high-definition television screens to show just one of those snapshots . We will have to wait a few years to see such magnificent cosmic postcards.
