world now see it for yourself, the legacy survey of space and time camera created at the national accelerator lavatorythe -- laboratory at stanford. >> the final -- to be a catalog that has space and time and it. look at the largest possible area, get as many galaxies as we can, as deep as we can go that is far back in time. reporter: stuart took me inside the clean room for the closer look to see how it was done. it can capture more than 40 times the area of the moon with each shot. the camera has the world's biggest lens of the most amount of sensors. it has a guinness world record to prove it. it is outfitted with these filters, costing a million dollars each to allow it a certain amount of light through the camera. it will capture images quickly and efficiently. >> it spends most of its time of the shutter open collecting light. a small amount of time reading out and transferring the data. >> with that data scientist around the world are able to study an endless number of topics, the information will be open to the community. this includes understanding the mystery of dark matter and dark energy.