Astronomy has been growing more and more everyday, new discoveries, enhanced telescopes, new stars, galaxies and more have been found and discovered. Everything about the world we live in, space, and the entire universe is fascinating. The only problem is it takes such a long time to learn even more about more planets, maybe even life somewhere in the universe that we don’t know of, or to learn more about other galaxies and stars. The technology we have today takes years and years to just retrieve data and sometimes a lifetime. Although, there has been a new invention, located in South America, that can answer many important questions asked about the universe, space, and where we will. The invention and facility that will answer many question and enhance astronomy is called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope or LSST. This telescope is has all new technology that is going be used for wide spread use, such as a camera that is 3200 megapixels which is the largest digital camera in the world, data management that takes 30 terabytes of data nightly and instant alerts on any object that change in position or in brightness, and a telescope that has two aspherical optical surfaces, this is also an ground telescope. Its also located in Cerro Pachon, Chile, but why? Its because location of the LSST had to be done by a international site election committee. To place this telescope light pollution, high altitudes, and dry climates came into play. There were ten location to place the telescope and Cerro Pachon, Chile was the winner out of the ten which is why its located there. The exciting part about LSST and what it will do is capture changes and the observable universe, with billions of objects of our universe will then be seen for the first time and also be monitored as time goes on. This invention is likely to make unexpected discoveries in our universe. This telescope is a one of one, nothing can do what it does. It’s the only telescope to capture a wide field survey and a camera that can move quickly around the sky and capture everything over and over again. It will revolutionized how we view our universe to unforeseen discoveries and even learn more about our universe. Also not only will astronomers and science be able to access but also students and the general public to see for themselves The New Sky, and also museums of science. LSST can answer many questions, and make new discoveries, but why not just send probes to space and do the job? To do that large samples of objects would have to be made to cover a wide area of the sky, and probes can get lost, and it takes a longer amount of time. To have a telescope that could do that job instead is much better and faster and easier in a way. LSST is a exciting telescope that everyone should also be excited for not just the team that created it and astronomers. Its providing full resolution, an entire full depth image and real time alerts to new discoveries from the LSST. This will pen many doors and eyes to things we have yet to know and see.
