Submission + - Google, consortium to build "movie" telesc
TravisW writes: Google announced a partnership with a public-private consortium to create a "moving picture" database of the universe using data collected from the 3.2 billion-pixel reflecting Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated for completion in 2013. The project, whose planned uses will include studying dark matter and near-Earth asteroids and mapping the Milky Way, will generate some 30 terabytes of data nightly.