Engineers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have completed work on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera. The device is the world's largest digital camera and will be the centerpiece of a 10-year mission to map the night sky from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

00:00 LSST camera
00:30 The worlds largest digital camera
01:28 How does the camera work?
02:19 The shutter
02:30 Dark energy and dark matter
02:59 The camera moves to Chile

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