World's largest digital camera will shoot a 10-year sky film

The Rubin Observatory in Chile houses the world's largest digital camera, boasting a 3.2-gigapixel sensor. Over the next 10 years it will photograph the entire visible sky every few nights, producing a continuous time-lapse film of the universe. Scientists will use the data to track asteroids, supernovae and dark matter.

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