Camera with a resolution of 3.2 billion pixels will show what happened in the past of the universe

The world's largest digital camera is being prepared for installation at the Vera Rubin Observatory on the top of the Chilean mountain.

mountains where she will film half the southern skyevery three days. The images will give astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists a complete portrait of this region of the sky about once a week. It is noteworthy that the new telescope will look deep into space, and, therefore, actually into the past.

When a person looks into the night sky and seesfamiliar stars, he really looks into the past. The reason is that what people are actually seeing is light sent from a very distant object many years ago. All the stars that we see from Earth are many light years away. And the farther the star is, the longer it takes its light to reach us. 

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST;English "Large Survey Telescope"), or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which aims to constantly monitor the sky, received the largest lens in history with a diameter of 157 cm. In fact, this is the largest digital camera in the world, a 3.2-gigapixel camera (3. 2 billion pixels). The photographs that LSST will take weekly will form the Space and Time Exploration Survey. The project is designed for 10 years, says a statement from Stanford University.

Stanford University

The LSST chamber consists of six rotatingoptical filters that can be turned on and off depending on what the astronomers are trying to capture and the lighting conditions. Filters provide the ability to display the sky in six different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

LSST will explore part of the sky and trackhis changes to understand the nature of distant galaxies and events in the past of the universe. It will also monitor near-Earth asteroids to make sure they don't collide with our planet.

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