Astronomers seek widest view ever of the universe with new telescope

Construction of the $700 million telescope (LSST)will begin in earnest this spring on a mountaintop in Chile's Atacama Desert.

LSST stands for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a name even astronomers agree is clunky for what has been described as the world's most powerful sky-mapping machine. While most telescopes can take only snapshots of a narrow sliver of space, LSST will scan the heavens continuously in wide swaths.

The telescope will produce an image of the entire southern sky every three days - a feat that would take the Hubble Space Telescope 120 years to accomplish once.

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