00:04consumer cameras have gotten extremely impressive in recent years however they've got nothing on
00:09this beast this is the new six thousand six hundred pound three point two gigapixel digital
00:15camera being installed at an observatory in chile the camera was developed by the association of
00:21universities for research in astronomy or aura and it will appear into the night sky and hopefully
00:26unveil some of our universe's most notorious mysteries here's the chief science officer
00:31with aura stuart quarter to explain your ruben observatory at the end will study a variety of
00:36different scientific topics but i mean the main one and the reason why all of the different partners
00:41have gotten together is to really understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter in the
00:46universe and overall at the end of the day the material that we see and know around us only
00:51constitutes about five percent of the energy content in the universe he adds that the camera
00:56now holds two guinness records for largest camera lens that being about 5.2 feet wide and most pixels
01:01the aforementioned 3200 that converts to 20 terabytes of data collection each and every night this thing
01:08is pointed at the sky dark energy and dark matter have long been a mystery to scientists despite making
01:14up most of the universe
