Scientists gather to prepare for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 20:40
in Astronomy & Space
When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope begins in 2022 to image the entire southern sky from a mountaintop in Chile, it will produce the widest, deepest and fastest views of the night sky ever observed – and a flood of 6 million gigabytes of data per year that are expected to provide new insights into dark matter, dark energy and other cosmic mysteries.