According to reports, largest and sharpest digital camera in the world will be used in an advanced ground telescope that looks at the southern skies on a mountain in northern Chile. The mountain is 8,900-foot in height.

The camera is said to be the size of a small car and is able to capture images at 3.2 gigapixel resolution. Construction of the camera is supported largely by the US Department of Energy and to some extent by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

On August 1, 2014, the Department of Energy (DOE) approved the construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) but its first foundation was laid on April 14, 2015. At present, the camera is being constructed in a SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's facility in Menlo Park, California.

It is expected that LSST will completely become functional by 2022. Its construction was aimed at surveying the southern sky and capturing high resolution images of the farthest of the galaxies. Scientists are expecting that the telescope will assist in identifying more galaxies than people present on Earth before a decade ends. It will be an extraordinary achievement, according to them.

LSST's camera is also able to generate videos of the night sky in detail. However, the storage space is required to be large as the telescope will deliver 6 million Gigabytes of data each year. Also, a single image captured by the 3.2 gigapixel camera would require 1,500 HDTV screens to be displayed appropriately.