An ambitious new telescope — equipped with the world’s largest digital camera — will scan the skies from a mountaintop in Chile, providing new insights into supernovae, asteroids, and more.
Over the course of its planned ten-year run, it will photograph everything visible from its latitude some 800 times, flagging anything that pops into view, disappears from view or changes position during that time.
“Everything about it is big,” says Robert Blum, the observatory’s director for operations.
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