00:00We're about to make the greatest movie ever filmed, and it's happening in space.
00:03Not with actors, with the entire universe.
00:06The U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science say
00:10its observatory in Chile has officially started a 10-year mission.
00:14The goal is to create the most detailed time-lapse of the cosmos ever made,
00:18using the world's largest digital camera.
00:20It'll capture a new 3,200-megapixel image about every 40 seconds,
00:24watching the sky change night after night.
00:26Scientists hope it'll spot exploding stars, discover millions of asteroids and comets,
00:31and uncover clues about dark matter and dark energy.
00:34Maybe even reveal things we've never seen before.
00:37By the end of the decade, this cosmic movie could completely change how we understand the universe.
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