The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, seen in this artist's rendering, will be built on the peak of the Cerro Pachon mountain in Chile and will survey the sky every night for 10 years. The data the telescope will collect will allow researchers to "answer fundamentally different questions about the universe," says one astronomer.
New Telescope To Make 10-Year Time Lapse Of Sky
Once finished, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will capture over 800 images of every patch of the sky for an entire decade. The results, says one astronomer, will allow researchers to "answer fundamentally different questions about the universe."
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