An artist's impression of how the telescope will look inside
The World's first motion picture of our Universe, being dubbed the 'greatest movie ever made', is to be produced by international astronomers. The film, which could feature dangerous asteroids and uncover some of the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, will be recorded on a giant digital camera comprising 3.2 billion pixels. It hasn't been completed yet, but when it is, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be the World's largest digital camera. It will be able to take images of the sky that each cover over 40 times the area of the moon, building up a survey of the entire visible sky in just three nights. That means billions of galaxies, stars and solar system objects will be seen for the first time and monitored over ten years. UK astronomers, including astrophysicists from the University of Bath, will now play a key part after funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) confirmed the UK's participation. Head of Astrophysics, Professor Carole Mundell , represents the University at the UK LSST Consortium and leads the UK Science Working Group on Active Galactic Nuclei.
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