The New Digital Sky

Google TechTalks
July 25, 2006
Tony Tyson is the Director of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. His research interests are in cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, observational optical astronomy, experimental gravitational physics, and new instrumentation. He has been a Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC Davis since 2003.
ABSTRACT
Fueled by advances in software, microelectronics, and large optics fabrication, a new type of sky survey is being designed. In a relentless campaign of 15 second exposures, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will cover the sky to the edge of the optical universe every three nights, opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, etc.
The superb images from the LSST will also chart billions of remote galaxies in 4-D, providing multiple probes of the mysterious Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Thirty TB of multi-color images per night will be transformed into a new view of our four dimensional universe.
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Thank God I seen this video it explains a great deal. It filled in some missing puzzle pieces I had. Thank you. Also. I have an identical picture that is shown in your video. However; i took my picture of the sky simply with my Samsung Galaxy S 7. Isn't that something! In addition to another picture you have shown with the Stars etc actually in motion in a vortex type of image happened to me while looking at a picture I just had taken right before my eyes the previous "still" image in my phone suddenly came to life so to speak right before my eyes the actual image changed from normal digit sky to an image that was simular to the one shown here as if it were in motion!! I am at a loss of words as to how this is even possible! ??? Comments anyone please it would be greatly appreciated. It amazingly resembled Vincent's Van Go "Starry Starry Night!". Then it suddenly changed back to "normal".
What just happened???