The world's first motion picture of our universe, being dubbed the 'greatest movie ever made', is to be produced by international astronomers, including those from the University of Central Lancashire. The film, which could feature dangerous asteroids and uncover some of the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, will be recorded on a giant digital camera comprising of 3.2 billion pixels. It hasn't been constructed yet, but when it is, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be the world's largest digital camera. The camera will be able to take images of the sky that cover over 40 times the footprint of the moon, building up a survey of the entire visible sky, in just three nights. That means billions of galaxies, stars and solar system objects will be seen for the first time, and monitored over the next 10 years.

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